![]() The bead, it turns out, arrived with the Great Heathen Army via the great trading networks that connected this part of the Norse sphere of influence to, wait for it, Gujarat in far-away India. It is the exact origin of this bead and how and why it came to end up in a Viking grave in the middle of the English countryside that is the framework for this book. This carnelian bead, of a brown and orange hue, used as a semi-gemstone, was discovered amongst a Viking Era grave of warriors from the "Great Heathen Army" that decimated this area of England in the late 9th century. Cat Jarman while digging through the archives in the quiet English town of Repton, smack bang in the heart of the picturesque English Midlands. However, that is exactly what happened to Dr. It's not often that more than a thousand-year-old bead can change how we perceive history. ![]() Jarman hopes to shed some new light on the interconnectedness of early medieval societies and economies and explain how global the early medieval economy truly was. ![]() In River Kings - A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads, Dr. ![]()
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