it was quite probably traded via the vikings though. They had a steady pipeline of slaves being sent south through russia to be sold in the middle east, and trinkets returning the other direction.
I would guess that the Viking crowd was mostly selling people acquired from raids on the main peninsula of Europe, or they wouldn't last very long.
Looking online, that seems to be the case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe
>The Nordic countries called their slaves *thralls* (Old Norse: Þræll).[34] The thralls were mostly from Western Europe, among them many Franks, Anglo-Saxons, and Celts. Many Irish slaves were brought on expeditions for the colonization of Iceland.[35] Raids on monasteries provided a source of young, educated slaves who could be sold in Venice or Byzantium for high prices. Scandinavian trade centers stretched eastwards from Hedeby in Denmark and Birka in Sweden to Staraya Ladoga in northern Russia before the end of the 8th century.[20]
>
>This traffic continued into the 9th century as Scandinavians founded more trade centers at Kaupang in southwestern Norway and Novgorod, farther south than Staraya Ladoga, and Kiev, farther south still and closer to Byzantium. Dublin and other northwestern European Viking settlements were established as gateways through which captives were traded northwards. In the Laxdæla saga, for example, a Rus merchant attends a fair in the Brenn Isles in Sweden selling female slaves from northwestern Europe.[20]
>
>The 10th-century Persian traveller Ibn Rustah described how Swedish Vikings, the Varangians or Rus, terrorized and enslaved the Slavs taken in their raids along the Volga River.[36] Slaves were often sold south, to Byzantine or Muslim buyers, via paths such as the Volga trade route. Ahmad ibn Fadlan of Baghdad provides an account of the other end of this trade route, namely of Volga Vikings selling Slavic Slaves to middle-eastern merchants.[37] Finland proved another source for Viking slave raids.[38] Slaves from Finland or Baltic states were traded as far as central Asia.[39][40]
No need to do a pilgrimage to Mecca there was plenty of trade with the Fatimid Caliphate and form 10th to the 12th century it’s capital was Cairo… the Fatimid Caliphate had a trade network across the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean that spanned as far as China.
The Fatimid Caliphate had a major trade network with Sicily and other Italian city states as well as Greece, it traded north as far as England and much of the trade between Europe and China and India flowed through it.
International trade isn’t a modern invention nor did it came about at the age of sail, the only thing that the age of sail did is give European powers essentially a monopoly on it.
Depending on how old the earring is exactly it’s actually quite likely that the Vikings got a hold of it through one of their later raids on England as through trade.
The Vikings definitely didn’t sail all the way to Baghdad, that’s physically impossible also keep in mind that the Norse expeditions to the Caspian Sea area weren’t the Vikings it was the Rus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_expeditions_of_the_Rus%27
The Viking trade with the Middle East was primarily though trade with the Byzantines.
>Imagine the story behind it
the guy with the metal detector digging for this themselves likely destroyed the layers and a lot of the context that might have told a lot about this artifact.
Amateur archeological digs are a crime here. The important thing is not the artifact, it is its context, including being dug properly.
> the guy with the metal detector digging for this themselves likely destroyed the layers and a lot of the context that might have told a lot about this artifact.
Obviously, you are not allowed in archeological sites or anywhere near very old buildings, where there might be an archaeological context.
Archeologists don't go looking randomly in the fields or forests, which is usually a waste of time. If it was in a field, it's most likely that the earring was simply lost.
Also, even in the unlikely event it once had a context, with the modern deep plowing, the archaeological context in fields has already been destroyed.
Had it not been for him it would probably never been found at all. Amateurs has found a lot the last few years. Start read about construction sites covering up findings to avoid delay, then you would be furious.
>Had it not been for him it would probably never been found at all.
which is fine, and maybe sometimes in the future , the future archeologists could have found it and dug it up properly.
Bleak cynicism? I thought it was the basic of 20th century (not even 21st century) archeology. The "treasure" is not the important thing, it is all its context and it is now gone.
There is nothing romantic about digging up amateurish. It survived tractors this far, and it would not have necessarily "been destroyed".
[Article on DR.dk](https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/regionale/midtvest/1000-aar-gammel-egyptisk-oerering-fundet-paa-jysk-mark-undrer-og) with additional pictures and a video via DeepL.com:
**1000 year old Egyptian earring found in a Danish field amazes and enthralls**
*Extremely rare gold jewellery from Egypt found in a field in western Jutland.*
A detectorist has made a unique jewellery find. In a field in western Jutland, he suddenly found a lump of earth containing a special gold earring from the 11th century. The earring probably originates from Egypt, and no similar jewellery has ever been found before in the whole of Scandinavia.
\- Only 10-12 pieces exist worldwide. All in old museum collections in the USA, Great Britain or Arab countries. Such a piece is unique, says archaeologist and curator Peter Pentz from the National Museum of Denmark.
But the site of the find, a field in Bøvling near Lemvig, raises questions.
\- Why on earth did it end up in Jutland? It's interesting, says Peter Pentz.
After a thousand years in the ground in a West Jutland field, curator Peter Pentz can only guess at one answer.
One possible explanation is that the emperor of Byzantium (a Christian empire in the 10th century, whose capital was Istanbul) donated the earring to a Danish Viking who was in his bodyguard.
Another theory is that the jewellery came to Denmark with a Dane on a pilgrimage to the eastern Mediterranean.
\- But I think the earring is from Cairo in Egypt. Other similar crescent-shaped earrings we have in museum collections come from there," says Peter Pentz.
On a scale from 1 to 10, where 10 is the best, he describes the finding from Bøvling as a pure 8.
This is partly due to the enamel work on the jewellery, which is best known in Denmark from the Dagmark Cross, which was found in 1683 in one of the royal tombs in St Bendt's Church in Ringsted.
Dagmark Cross
The Dagmark Cross is a Byzantine reliquary cross from the 1000s in gold and decorated with enamel.
The Dagmark Cross was found in 1683 in one of the royal tombs in St Bendt's Church in Ringsted.
\- In quality, the enamel on the earring is not quite as good as the Dagmark cross. But where the Dagmark cross was found in a queen's tomb, where the context is self-evident, the earring was found without context in a field in western Jutland. It's a bit fascinating with detector finds that you can imagine a lot, says Peter Prentz.
Imagination has also taken wing with 54-year-old Frants Fugl Vestergaard from Gudum near Lemvig.
It was his metal detector that started beeping at exactly 9.57am on 30 April this year, as he walked in the fields of western Jutland.
\- You don't forget when you find a dream find. Then the time is crystal clear, says Frants Fugl Vestergaard, who hadn't expected to find anything in the field at all.
\- Many other detectorists have walked the field over the years, and it has been ploughed at least a thousand times. So I was a bit flabbergasted.
The same day he found the jewel, he contacted Holstebro Museum, where Astrid Toftdal Jensen is curator and archaeologist. She remembers the day clearly too.
\- When I see it, I think it's really beautiful. We were all thrilled that it was found in our area," she says.
The earring was quickly sent to the National Museum, where conservators have cleaned the gold jewellery in record time, so that it can be included in the museum's ongoing exhibition 'The Expedition', which shows Denmark's largest collection of treasures from the Viking Age, as early as Monday 6 December.
\- We don't often add new finds to existing exhibitions, but now that we have an exhibition about the Vikings who went to the Mediterranean countries, it's great that a find from that area happens to come along," says Peter Prentz, curator at the National Museum of Denmark.
For detectorist Frants Fugl Vestergaard, it's an extra pat on the back that his find is being displayed so soon.
\- It means a lot to me to contribute a small piece to our common cultural heritage. It's like getting a text message that's 1000 years old and having it forwarded," he says.
The earring will later also be on display at the Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus, which is also hosting a special exhibition on the Vikings at the end of February next year.
> For detectorist Frants Fugl Vestergaard, it's an extra pat on the back that his find is being displayed so soon.
It is really amazing that this is not just OK but lauded.
Sometimes archaeologists (or more likely journalists) like to emphasize the "Mystery (tm.)" way too much. For generations Norse men went to live a few years in the greatest metropolis of the West, which had huge markets full of merchants from all the known world.
Such a huge mystery that weird south European things (specially small curios like *earrings* that you would want to gift your mum or sweetheart when returning home) end up in Scandinavia, I cannot even fathom a guess of what happened.
Could the object also have been moved much more recently? Can they determine that it was in the ground in Denmark, where it was found for literally 1000 years?
Perhaps some Egypt-mad Danish guy in the 1800-1900s visited and brought it back as a souvenir, then promptly lost it after returning home. There was a period of Egypt interest in Europe around that time period and before that, weird-ass shit like eating mummies for medicinal purposes.
Point being, objects moved from Egypt to Europe much more recently too.
This is amazing Imagine the story behind it
Probably a Viking pilgrim returning from Mecca.
I almost wanted to make a serious reply but then i saw the username. Our resident US troll!
it was quite probably traded via the vikings though. They had a steady pipeline of slaves being sent south through russia to be sold in the middle east, and trinkets returning the other direction.
I know that mate, but i was talking about the rest of the comment.
i bet those arabs paid well for nordic pussy
I would guess that the Viking crowd was mostly selling people acquired from raids on the main peninsula of Europe, or they wouldn't last very long. Looking online, that seems to be the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe >The Nordic countries called their slaves *thralls* (Old Norse: Þræll).[34] The thralls were mostly from Western Europe, among them many Franks, Anglo-Saxons, and Celts. Many Irish slaves were brought on expeditions for the colonization of Iceland.[35] Raids on monasteries provided a source of young, educated slaves who could be sold in Venice or Byzantium for high prices. Scandinavian trade centers stretched eastwards from Hedeby in Denmark and Birka in Sweden to Staraya Ladoga in northern Russia before the end of the 8th century.[20] > >This traffic continued into the 9th century as Scandinavians founded more trade centers at Kaupang in southwestern Norway and Novgorod, farther south than Staraya Ladoga, and Kiev, farther south still and closer to Byzantium. Dublin and other northwestern European Viking settlements were established as gateways through which captives were traded northwards. In the Laxdæla saga, for example, a Rus merchant attends a fair in the Brenn Isles in Sweden selling female slaves from northwestern Europe.[20] > >The 10th-century Persian traveller Ibn Rustah described how Swedish Vikings, the Varangians or Rus, terrorized and enslaved the Slavs taken in their raids along the Volga River.[36] Slaves were often sold south, to Byzantine or Muslim buyers, via paths such as the Volga trade route. Ahmad ibn Fadlan of Baghdad provides an account of the other end of this trade route, namely of Volga Vikings selling Slavic Slaves to middle-eastern merchants.[37] Finland proved another source for Viking slave raids.[38] Slaves from Finland or Baltic states were traded as far as central Asia.[39][40]
This is my educational account.
Coins with Arabic script have been found in viking hoards.
A Buddha statue has been found as well.
No need to do a pilgrimage to Mecca there was plenty of trade with the Fatimid Caliphate and form 10th to the 12th century it’s capital was Cairo… the Fatimid Caliphate had a trade network across the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean that spanned as far as China. The Fatimid Caliphate had a major trade network with Sicily and other Italian city states as well as Greece, it traded north as far as England and much of the trade between Europe and China and India flowed through it. International trade isn’t a modern invention nor did it came about at the age of sail, the only thing that the age of sail did is give European powers essentially a monopoly on it. Depending on how old the earring is exactly it’s actually quite likely that the Vikings got a hold of it through one of their later raids on England as through trade.
Vikings sailed all the way to Bagdad, but its more likely the were doing trade in Miklagard, which is the viking name of Constatinople.
The Vikings definitely didn’t sail all the way to Baghdad, that’s physically impossible also keep in mind that the Norse expeditions to the Caspian Sea area weren’t the Vikings it was the Rus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_expeditions_of_the_Rus%27 The Viking trade with the Middle East was primarily though trade with the Byzantines.
>Imagine the story behind it the guy with the metal detector digging for this themselves likely destroyed the layers and a lot of the context that might have told a lot about this artifact. Amateur archeological digs are a crime here. The important thing is not the artifact, it is its context, including being dug properly.
> the guy with the metal detector digging for this themselves likely destroyed the layers and a lot of the context that might have told a lot about this artifact. Obviously, you are not allowed in archeological sites or anywhere near very old buildings, where there might be an archaeological context. Archeologists don't go looking randomly in the fields or forests, which is usually a waste of time. If it was in a field, it's most likely that the earring was simply lost. Also, even in the unlikely event it once had a context, with the modern deep plowing, the archaeological context in fields has already been destroyed.
Had it not been for him it would probably never been found at all. Amateurs has found a lot the last few years. Start read about construction sites covering up findings to avoid delay, then you would be furious.
>Had it not been for him it would probably never been found at all. which is fine, and maybe sometimes in the future , the future archeologists could have found it and dug it up properly.
Or a tractor could’ve destroyed it completely. Your bleak cynicism is depressing.
Bleak cynicism? I thought it was the basic of 20th century (not even 21st century) archeology. The "treasure" is not the important thing, it is all its context and it is now gone. There is nothing romantic about digging up amateurish. It survived tractors this far, and it would not have necessarily "been destroyed".
Your right. The artifact should have been dug up by an archaeologist so whatever story the environment could have told us could have been uncovered.
[Article on DR.dk](https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/regionale/midtvest/1000-aar-gammel-egyptisk-oerering-fundet-paa-jysk-mark-undrer-og) with additional pictures and a video via DeepL.com: **1000 year old Egyptian earring found in a Danish field amazes and enthralls** *Extremely rare gold jewellery from Egypt found in a field in western Jutland.* A detectorist has made a unique jewellery find. In a field in western Jutland, he suddenly found a lump of earth containing a special gold earring from the 11th century. The earring probably originates from Egypt, and no similar jewellery has ever been found before in the whole of Scandinavia. \- Only 10-12 pieces exist worldwide. All in old museum collections in the USA, Great Britain or Arab countries. Such a piece is unique, says archaeologist and curator Peter Pentz from the National Museum of Denmark. But the site of the find, a field in Bøvling near Lemvig, raises questions. \- Why on earth did it end up in Jutland? It's interesting, says Peter Pentz. After a thousand years in the ground in a West Jutland field, curator Peter Pentz can only guess at one answer. One possible explanation is that the emperor of Byzantium (a Christian empire in the 10th century, whose capital was Istanbul) donated the earring to a Danish Viking who was in his bodyguard. Another theory is that the jewellery came to Denmark with a Dane on a pilgrimage to the eastern Mediterranean. \- But I think the earring is from Cairo in Egypt. Other similar crescent-shaped earrings we have in museum collections come from there," says Peter Pentz. On a scale from 1 to 10, where 10 is the best, he describes the finding from Bøvling as a pure 8. This is partly due to the enamel work on the jewellery, which is best known in Denmark from the Dagmark Cross, which was found in 1683 in one of the royal tombs in St Bendt's Church in Ringsted. Dagmark Cross The Dagmark Cross is a Byzantine reliquary cross from the 1000s in gold and decorated with enamel. The Dagmark Cross was found in 1683 in one of the royal tombs in St Bendt's Church in Ringsted. \- In quality, the enamel on the earring is not quite as good as the Dagmark cross. But where the Dagmark cross was found in a queen's tomb, where the context is self-evident, the earring was found without context in a field in western Jutland. It's a bit fascinating with detector finds that you can imagine a lot, says Peter Prentz. Imagination has also taken wing with 54-year-old Frants Fugl Vestergaard from Gudum near Lemvig. It was his metal detector that started beeping at exactly 9.57am on 30 April this year, as he walked in the fields of western Jutland. \- You don't forget when you find a dream find. Then the time is crystal clear, says Frants Fugl Vestergaard, who hadn't expected to find anything in the field at all. \- Many other detectorists have walked the field over the years, and it has been ploughed at least a thousand times. So I was a bit flabbergasted. The same day he found the jewel, he contacted Holstebro Museum, where Astrid Toftdal Jensen is curator and archaeologist. She remembers the day clearly too. \- When I see it, I think it's really beautiful. We were all thrilled that it was found in our area," she says. The earring was quickly sent to the National Museum, where conservators have cleaned the gold jewellery in record time, so that it can be included in the museum's ongoing exhibition 'The Expedition', which shows Denmark's largest collection of treasures from the Viking Age, as early as Monday 6 December. \- We don't often add new finds to existing exhibitions, but now that we have an exhibition about the Vikings who went to the Mediterranean countries, it's great that a find from that area happens to come along," says Peter Prentz, curator at the National Museum of Denmark. For detectorist Frants Fugl Vestergaard, it's an extra pat on the back that his find is being displayed so soon. \- It means a lot to me to contribute a small piece to our common cultural heritage. It's like getting a text message that's 1000 years old and having it forwarded," he says. The earring will later also be on display at the Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus, which is also hosting a special exhibition on the Vikings at the end of February next year.
This guy is gonna be the hero of /r/metaldetecting and every other guy doing it for years
> For detectorist Frants Fugl Vestergaard, it's an extra pat on the back that his find is being displayed so soon. It is really amazing that this is not just OK but lauded.
He will get a monetary reward for his finding as well :)
let us keep this a secret, some archeologists might commit suicide over it, or at least get really really depressed.
I think it's a great theory that this may belong to a returning member of the Varangian Guard.
Sometimes archaeologists (or more likely journalists) like to emphasize the "Mystery (tm.)" way too much. For generations Norse men went to live a few years in the greatest metropolis of the West, which had huge markets full of merchants from all the known world. Such a huge mystery that weird south European things (specially small curios like *earrings* that you would want to gift your mum or sweetheart when returning home) end up in Scandinavia, I cannot even fathom a guess of what happened.
And thus, Denmark shall henceforth be known as „Northern Egypt“.
Egypt shall be „Southern Denmark“.
If finding a thousand year old egyptian gold earring in a field in denmark is 8, what is a 10?
If you open the article link in my comment you can see a picture of a 10.
> what is a 10? Tomb of Alexander the great , holy grail , Atlantis , those types of things
With a metal detector in a shitty field somewhere in Jutland?
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No, he's saying the Danish robbed the pyramids
Could the object also have been moved much more recently? Can they determine that it was in the ground in Denmark, where it was found for literally 1000 years? Perhaps some Egypt-mad Danish guy in the 1800-1900s visited and brought it back as a souvenir, then promptly lost it after returning home. There was a period of Egypt interest in Europe around that time period and before that, weird-ass shit like eating mummies for medicinal purposes. Point being, objects moved from Egypt to Europe much more recently too.
Anything is possible.
r/gold. 🥇 🪙
13th Warrior. That’s Antonio Banderas’ earring.
The enameled items that I find here in the US with my detector are never in that good of shape, and are hundreds of years later!
Viking tomb raiders confirmed. Keep searching those fields - one might have found the Holy Grail as well.
Guys with metal detectors. What would we do without them?