article_snippet: A ring crafted more than 1,000 years ago confirms highlights the contact between the Vikings and the Islamic world.
article_snippet: Discovered inside a ninth century woman’s grave in Sweden, the stone inset into A ring bears an inscription that says ‘for Allah’ or ‘to Allah’.
article_snippet: A ring (pictured) made over 1,000 years ago has confirmed contact between the Vikings and the Islamic world the Islamic world because A ring (pictured) was unearthed in Sweden but bears an ancient Arabic inscription that asys 'for Allah' or 'to Allah' The ring was discovered during excavations of a Viking trading centre in Birka, Sweden, in the late 1800s, Science News reported.
article_snippet: Researchers at Stockholm University used a scanning electron microscope to determine an exotic material at the time and to clearly reveal ancient Arabic writing called Kufic writing, that reads ‘for Allah or ‘to Allah.
article_snippet: The ring was discovered during excavations of a Viking trading centre in Birka, Sweden (shown by the red marker) which lies west of Stockholm, in the late 1800s but has now been examined under a scanning electron microscope to determine the stone is exotic glass, rather than an amythest .
article_snippet: ‘The ring may… constitute material evidence for direct interactions between Viking Age Scandinavia and the Islamic world.
article_snippet: Being the only ring with an Arabic inscription found at a Scandinavian archaeological site, it is a unique object among Swedish Viking Age material.
highlights_snippet: Ninth century ring was discovered in a Viking grave in Sweden .
  