Why did Vikings wear burial clothes with the word “allah”?

They were kept in warehouses for over 100 years, devalued as typical examples of Viking Age funerals.

But a new research into clothing found in the graves of the 9th and 10th centuries has made incredible findings about the contact between the Islamic world and that Viking, writes the BBC, translates Periscope.

Silk and silver embroidered models have been discovered that the words “allah” and “Ali” can be written.

This age-old discovery was made by textile archaeologist Annikka Larsson of Upsala University while re-examing the remains of men and women's burial suits.

She became interested in forgotten fragments after realizing that the material had come from Asia, Persia, and China.

Larsson says that the small geometric designs no bigger than 1.4 high-species did not match anything he had encountered in Scandinavian earlier.

But she later realized that she wasn't looking at Viking models, but ancient Arabic scripts.

There were two words that continued to rise. One of them was identified with the help of an Iranian colleague. It was the name “

However, the next word was more difficult to decipher.