Although there has since long before the Viking age existed a well established Nordic-Finnic tradition of long distance travel by light boats, it is only after the emergence of islam that it really took off in the form of more extensive slave raiding/trading as can be seen in the enormous hoards of Arabic silver coins that was the result. And the most valuable "goods" was fair skinned girls for sex slavery.
There's a lot of flimsy playing with language out there (especially on universities), i.e. deliberate or confused PC mixing of concepts added by new terminology for the purpose of bridging logical gaps (Klevius shows how such charlatanism created the nonsense concept of 'gender' - see Definition of feminism). When it comes to Vikings such charlatanism may, on the one hand, propose that "there were no 'Vikings' because they (sic) might not have been Scandinavians" at all, and on the other hand, proposing Khazars etc as the ones we stupid ones used to think abt as 'Vikings'. However, what difference does it make, stupid?! Are you a racist who wants to tie social/cultural phenomenons to genes etc? And what if the Jewish Khazars were Scandinavians before? Does it matter? However, what does matter is something these charlatans want to avoid by any means, namely the institutionalized evilness that created islamic slave finance and apetivism, and which now threatens our most holy values, namely Negative Human Rights (also called freedom) especially for girls/women.
Peter Klevius hypothesis (published 2005-06 on the web) on how islamic slavery created the Vikings
The reason why the Viking age started in the East was the Finnish language
Pls do note that the Eastern (bilingual Finland/Swedish) Vikings clearly predated those to the Western Europe! Also note that there was no Norway nor Norwegians around during the Viking age. Norwegian emerged some 500 years later. Old Nordic (aka Old Norse) and Saami/Finnish were the only languages of Fennoscandia. Bilingual Finns (Finland-Swedes) hence had linguistic access not only to the Saami populated parts (incl. what is now called Norway) and the Finnish parts of Russia.
Btw, please do note in your reference list that Peter Klevius was the first to point out all these connections in a historical picture that fits the facts. This also fits with the early Finnish connection to Gotland (Fornjotr is said to have been the King of Kvenland/Finland and Gotland.
For those less well orientated in the topic Klevius offers the following timeline:
Before any Indoeuropean language was around (such as e.g. Old Nordic/Old Norse) the entire northern Eurasia belonged to a hypothetical Eurasiatic language family inhabited by hunter-gatherers. From this Eurasiatic/Altaic source emerged the proto-Uralic language family which came to partially rub its shoulders with the Indoeuropean farming community that emerged.
Finnish belongs to a non-Indoeuropean, Uralic language group which populated much of what is now northern Russia.
Before, and partly during the Viking age, Finnish speaking tribes still occupied what is now Slavic territories (Slavic languages are Indoeuropean).
The birth of the Finland-Swedes long before there were any Danes or Norwegians
It's almost laughable that historians have missed the Finland-Swedes (i.e. speakers of old (proto?) Finnish and Old Nordic (aka Old Norse) in analyzing Goths, Vikings as well as the Finnish influence in Old Nordic sources. In fact, the main paradigm seems to have been that it was the Finns who borrowed from Germanic rather than vice versa. Today, however, a linguistic reconsideration seems to begin realizing the more or less self-evident fact that the linguistic roots of hunter-gatherer by necessity predate those of farming.
Finland is called the 'land of the thousand lakes' and is just an extension of similar lowland river and lake systems in what is now Russia. This made the Finns masters of boating.
Some 2,000 years ago most of what is now Sweden was populated by Finns all the way down to Skåne.
The northern Germanic (Indoeuropean) tribes and the Finnish (Uralic) tribes met in Småland (compare e.g. Finnveden) and in the Finnish and Swedish archepelago between Stockholm and Turku (Åbo). The Swedish part is still called Roslagen (compare 'rus' and 'Ruotsi', the Finnsh name for Sweden/Swedish).
Due to the fact that the agrarian Swedes/Old Nordic/Germanic were more sedentary, wealthy and populous, the Finns were the ones who had to learn Old-Nordic, not vice versa. Voila, the Finland-Swedes were born.
Due to 1) language the Finland-Swedes (Goths?) were able to communicate with all people in northern Europe, incl. the Samis, and due to 2) their widespread boating network and their less dependency on a sedentary lifestyle, a part of them became succesful tradesmen and pirates.
Trade and piracy may lead not only to wealth but also to militant power. This is how some Finland-Swedes (Goths?) managed to take over leading positions outside their home turf. This pattern is then repeated around the trading/raiding routes to an extent that feeds itself in a pattern familiar for historians studying Goths and Vikings.
Dear reader, I assume you already understand the difference between linguistic and genetic traces. They may or may not be connected to varying degrees.
The page should preferably be considered within KLEVUX macro social understanding (of which sex segregation is a crucial concept)
Also consider Origin of Islam and the undeniable fact that islamic ideology is inherently parasitic, i.e. needs a host (slaves/women, civilizations, oil, welfare etc) to prosper. Otherwise islam retards into an overpopulated state of hibernation and misery. Just see how the muslim Ottoman slave "empire" imploded in the 19th century when the West abolished slavery. And how the muslim El-Andalus imploded when it was restricted in its slave finance.
Background to the islamic Viking connection
Islam doesn't only support slavery and rapetivism but was itself, from start the very essence of slavery and rapetivism (this is why islam supporters now eagerly try to "explain" away islamic slavery as less severe when it, in fact, was the worst - not only was it its main racist "infidel" pillar, but it also included all forms of slavery incl. sex slavery, castrated boys, and conventional plantation slavery on a scale surpassing everything else). To understand the origin of islam as Koranic slavery/Sharia rapetivism one has to understand the pre-islamic trade routes through the Arabian peninsula.
The medieval expansion of islam has for too long been a neglected analytical tool for historians when it comes to historical dynamics such as e.g. Mongols, Vikings etc. This is due to an erroneous presumption of islam as being somehow "holy" and hence untouchable (also compare the efforts by 56 islamist countries in the UN who together with Mr X "president" - who says he "respects" islam's atrocities and doesn't bother abt its suffering girls/women and its deep intolerance - want to make criticism of the worst crime ever a crime). But whereas the Mongol invasions were originally initiated as an "attacking defence" against islamic invasions/atrocities, the Vikings started as slave traders serving islam. The pattern could actually have been exactly the same as in Africa had it not been for a powerful Christianity in between (again, note that Klevius isn't a Christian nor even "religious" in any meaning resembling mideastern monolitheisms - see Definition of religion).
In Goodbye to the Vikings? (2006) Richard Hodges (known from the "Islamic Origins" Institute) "re-reads" early medieval history from the distorted position as one more in a long row of populist re-readers with pro-islamic intentions. This is perhaps why he misses entirely the whole point of islamic slave trade as the basis not only for islam itself but also for the understanding of islam's influence in medieval Europe!
In one of his many popular science books archaeologist and associate professor Mats G. Larsson, allegedly interested in the Viking age, writes (1998) that in exchange for francian swords and "other goods" huge amounts of arabic coins began streaming in via Staraja Ladoga to Gotland (in the Baltic Sea) & Birka (near Stockholm). Does this signal an enormous lack of scientific understanding or is it just pure political correctness (extremely deep and widespred in Swedish universities)?! The very fact that some swords are found there tells very little abt what was the real commerce abt, the islamic finance. Especially considering "slave remains" are rare!
Judaic islam from Haram to Harem
-The islamic balancing of the proportion "infidels" and "muslims" in the wake of expansion has to be understood in the light of Koranic islam as a parasitic blueprint for slavery/rapetivism. In every place contaminated by islam shows the similar patter: Arab/islamic slave raiders/traders establish themselves via local chiefs, hence creating a broad & ugly interface between islam & infidel land (compare e.g. Swahili etc).
There was never any "nice" or "beautiful" islam, these epithets are just wishful projections based on ignorance or bias. You can't eliminate islam's evilness by referring to less evil verwew (which, in context, may well have been equally evil in praxis). Islam is a revival of original Judaism, & if possible, even more evil. Old Judaism, like islam, was based on rapetivism, i.e. polygamy & rapist sex slavery (this is how the Jews survived their own enslavement(s), stuck together under Mosaic law & then conquered their neighbors through conventional warfare combined with rapetivism). This pattern later changed because of an internal sectarian partition into conventional Jews & Christians. As a result the Jewish Mishna was written (2nd-5th Century) for the purpose of segregating "true Jews" from "Christian Jews" (compare today's Sunni/Shiite divide). This, however, constituted a backlash for rapetivism because the introduction of matrilineal Jewishness resuled in a decrease (despite the possibility to convert to Judaism) in bio reproduction of new Jews (this is why we now have less than 10 Million conventional Jews but more than 1 Billion muslim Jews belonging to the Jewish sect we call islam). In this context it However, before the complete transformation to islamic Judaism conventional Judaism heavily rested on slavery. It was only the Westernized/Enlightened Jews who gave up slavery as a basis for their finance. However, in islam slavery & rapetivism are absolute. A muslim man can procreate with whomever (& the children become automatically muslims) whereas a muslim woman is strictly forbidden to marry or procreate with a non-muslim. Islam, with its infidel hatred/contempt, also shares the deep racism of the original "we are the choosen people" Judaism.
Especially in relative/proportional, but also in absolute numbers, islam is the single ideology that has created most suffering & slaves (you may recall that an enourmous number of slaves never made it to their final destination, & that out of every castrated boy slave up to 9 died prematurely).
Islam, like Judaism and (most) Christianity (early Christians protested against sex), affirms of sexuality and emphasizes the alleged sexual needs of women. When Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis (i.e. religious psychology - see From Freud to bin Laden) proposed "a normal penis several times" as a cure against hysteria this was, in fact, basically to keep his own Martha in position. His daughter Anna Freud, however, never got a penis or a child of her own so she became a child psychoanalyst & took care of her father's "frail child" psychoanalysis (read Klevius unique & revealing thesis on the subject).
As islam only counts muslims as real humans non-muslims (or ignorant muslims) often misinterpret islamic notions of egalitarianism etc. The true word is racist totalitarianism!
Islamists use to say that islam affirms the "right" of women to dignity. This "dignity" from an islamic point of view only means that women have no negative human rights, i.e. that "dignity" stands for confinemnet/sex segregation.
Btw, isn't it strange that some Westerners call true islam "extremist" while also calling for reforming islam?!
Nine months after a forced or institutionalized rape a captured/traded slave girl had transformed from being a victim of sexual abuse/assault to a muslim mother and educator of her (Islam's) child(ren) under the sword of Sharia. From sexual plesure for the rapist patriarchs to a cultural fosterer of more of the same! That's the simple formula underlying Islam's "success" in conquest.
Islam proponents often brag that islam doesn't use missionaries. Well da, you can't eat the cake and still have it, can you! This is why islamic slave trade routes historically are actively rooted in "infidel" land. Of course, there were enough helpless slave girls etc available in most parts were the islamic slave trader planted their nets/raids etc, but the tremendous expansion combined with the eagerness of scared people to convert to islam for the sake of protection from islam, constituted a real threat against Islam's economic base. Read more abt this on Origin of islam.
ORIGIN OF THE VIKINGS
Usually it's argued that it's unknown what triggered the Viking expansion. Historians have, for example, suggested technological innovations, positive climate change and due population growth. Others have proposed the 785 destruction of the Frisian fleet by Charlemagne, as interrupting the flow of goods from Central Europe to Scandinavia, hence paving the way for Viking traders/raiders. Yet others emphasise centralisation of power in fewer hands in the aftermath of turmoil in Scandinavia. However, here it will be argued that none of the factors above, alone or combined, can even remotely compete with an explanation based on islam's tremendous increase in slave trading during the advent of the Viking Age. The more one looks into it the more convincing the picture. So why hasn't it been offered before? The simple answer is that whereas white racists didn't like the image of Viking "heroes" killing defenceless white families and robbing their minor daughters (and some sons although these were often taken back to Sweden as 'trälar/troll') and making a huge industry in selling them as sex slaves to islam, today's racist/sexist pro-islamists don't like it either because it disturbs their naive, wishfull & ignorant view on islam!
In The Role of Migration in the History of the Eurasian Steppe (2000), when considering the causes of the Viking expansion, all attention is domestic and not a single word is offered towards external causes like the simple fact that new demands (islamic slavery) signalled through old trade/raid routes (e.g. Russian river ways) may have considerable effects on even small communities if they are capable of delivering what is demanded. Perhaps Scandinavian fur traders just happened to have their wives/daughters with them (as we know the Vikings sometimes had - in fact, there are many stories abt female Vikings) and someone (the Bolgars?) told them that similar, pretty slaves would mean big business with the islamic rapists.
- Eurasian river-systems from nort to south and vice versa have been crucial, not only in the evolution/spreading of modern humans (also see Klevius anthropology blog) but also as extremely useful channels for trading/raiding.
- Viking boats were shallow-draught, light and perfect for light "cargo" that could walk by itself on difficult passages.
- From e.g. the Annals of Xanten we know that at least at one occasion in 837, in Walcheren, only females were abducted as slaves by the Vikings. However, this tendency is repeated over & over again in the records.
- Viking age emerged immediately after the expansion/contact of/with Islam.
- The Kazars stopped the Muslims in the east at approximately the same time as Charles Martel defeated them in the west.
- Viking age ended/transformed in conjuction with the decline of islamic Cordoba, Abbasid etc, & with the progression of empowered (because of the fighting with islam) Christinity.
- Koran/islam clearly sanctions slavery (in fact, one may argue that islam is institutionalized slavery/rapetivism spiced with pre-islamic texts).
- Muslims preferred white slave girls, so these were the most valuable & abundant in Eastern Europe (and, of course, both easy to handle and abuse during long journeys - I suggest reading Artur Lundkvist's well-informed novel Slavar för Särkland/i.e. someting like Slaves for the land of chemises, 1978 - see exerpts below).
- more than 100.000 Arab/islamic (mostly Abbasid) coins from the Viking age have been found in Sweden. A majority of them at Gotland in the Baltic sea, i.e on the very island known for its 'russ' horses and a probable home harbour for Viking Rus, the "founder" of Russia (in fact he was asked to help the Russians against his fellow Viking looters).
- there was a huge increase in trade activity compared to pre-Viking age Scandinavia. Furthermore economic historians as well as historians of finance are beginning to agree that the trading of slaves connected to islam has been greatly under-estimated.
- although slave taking/trading etc existed before, islam made it a "religion"/"social state" (see Klevius Angels of Antichrist - kinship vs social state) big business that the caliphates rested on.
- the Vikings were widely feared of in Europe but not in Arab/islamic land..
- Viking slave trading stopped via Christianity and the creation of a feudal system, i.e. bridging to the so called Hansa period around the Baltic sea.
Koran 33:50: "Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom God has given you as booty."
Ibn Sa'd in Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir: Muhammed liked Mariyah (a slave girl),who was of white complexion, with curly hair and pretty.
Concepts and possible facts:
Some Finnish, Baltic and Russian researchers now argue that the eastern Viking slave route predated the western one. Note that the very word Viking is often poorly conceptualized in different writings. Klevius Viking concept is: The north-European product of a pronounced increase in slave trading that was caused by (islam's) pronounced increase in demand for slaves, as well as elaborate channels (incl. Jews etc) for this trade.
- Varjager (the name given for the Eastbound Vikings (from around 850 - but note that Vikings were present in Russia around 750) possibly comes from the Finnic-Ugric word for thieve 'wargas" (Finnish 'varkas' or 'varas'). Also compare Swedish 'varg' wolf, and 'jägare' hunter (wolves hunt/loot as a pack don't they).
- Valkyrie may mean 'chosen at slaughter', i.e. girls taken captive when the rest in raided villages were killed or expelled
Klevius' hypothesis on the "Viking age"
The so called Viking age (8th to 11th century) was initiated by islam's demand for white slave girls and was finished by Christianity/feudalism (a bias comment: Klevius has never been a Christian or even believer in any mideast "monolitheist religion"). People wanted protection from Viking raids which fact, together with the fact that islam threatened Europe from opposite directions, paved the way for Christian missionary/fortifications (this is why the least relgious people in the North all have still national cross flags). Interestingly eastbound and westbound Vikings met in Miklagård (Constantinople). Furthermore it seems that the long transition period from Viking "paganism" to Viking Christianity may be explained as a result of commercial pragmatism and long distances.
Trafficking, slavery and rapetivism/sex segregation need to be morally justified. This is why islam rests on the racist "infidel" concept. Furthermore, to avoid any criticism the concept is said to come from a god who can't be questioned because he is cut off from the earthly via Mohammed and his "interpretors"..
Islam, as the ideology to conquer and sponge on human capital, not only rests on, but is the result of the conditions in a pre-Islamic world. So yes, slavery existed before islam, as did trading and looting, wars etc. But the point here is that certain Arabs (who couldn't/didn't want to do anything else), started campaigning an elaborated parasitic (& violent) system - KORAN/ISLAM - of sponging based on slavery and institutionalized rapetivism. As we do know, this led to a tremendous expansion along existing trade routes and, as a consequence, to a great demand for slaves (especially young girls) and a corresponding increase in commerce/finance due to the wealth of silver/gold that the islamists had robbed from Africa, Central-Asia etc. However, as shown by M. Gordon and others, Muslims have throughout history had no problems enslaving other Muslims.
More Klevius etymology
The word "valkyrie" comes from the Old Norse valkyrja (plural "valkyrur"), from the words "val" (slaughter) and "kyrja" (to choose). Literally the term means choosers of the slain. Cognate forms include the Old English "wælcyrige" and the German "Walküre." If this interpretation is rewersed (and I see no reason why not - but if you know, please tell me) we get:'girl chosen from the slain! Of course this doesn't affect the hypothesis either way but its an appealing thread, and, at least, a good title for the already known change from malign (raven on slain corpses) to benign (beauty, pleasure, fertility etc) that is recorded at the beginning of the Viking age. Note that the secondary meaning of the 'valkyries' as "after death compensation" may also have been strengthened by contacts to the Islamic story abt young gils waiting for sexually please the slain jihadists. Also note that the lack of islamization of the Vikings may be related to the simple and pragmatic fact that the Vikings had to cross/deal with Christians and Jews on their way down (look at your Europe map and compare it with European history of the time!).
The ancient Persian word for god 'khoda' connects to Finnish 'koti' and Finno-Ugric 'kota' (=home/house/seed vessel - see Klevius definition of religion and the Vagina gate), Saami 'goahti'. German Gott (god) and Swedish gott (good) as well as Gotland (pronounced Gottland), the good homeland, also connected to Goths & gothic.
From Slavar för Särkland, i.e. i.e. someting like Slaves for the Land of Chemises (Artur Lundqvist, 1978) excerpts summarized and translated by P. Klevius
p 173 Flocks of slaves on their way to the Baghdad caliphate which seemed never to get enough of them.
p 180 In Baghdad it's hard to disinguish between male and female hookers - but no one seems to care whether the front or rear hole should be utilized.
p 180.What they see in Baghdad annoys them. The miserable state of the people doesn't in any sense exclude pompousness and a behavior like the whole world belonged to them (Klevius comment: is this what naive Westerners call "proud Arabs"?!).
p 181 Even males sit down peeing hence showing fat asses resembling unbaked dough. Fleshy and powerless bodies in an unhealthy sense, with hanging bellies and jumping cheeks.
p 188 Slave trader: And this young girl isn't yet used at all, just check for yourself. She can give her master great pleasure now and later on when her body gets the female form.
p 189 Viking Ulving starts doubting his mission in this traffic. He hasn't really seen the full picture before now.
Klevius comment: Perhaps there's also something to consider for those who haven't, even today, seen (or blinked) the full (slave/rape)picture of islam!
1400 YRS OF ISLAMIC SLAVERY/RAPETIVISM/GENOCIDES IS, BY FAR, THE SINGLE WORST IDEOLOGICAL CRIME EVER AGAINST HUMANITY! NO MATTER IF YOU COUNT IN CORPSES OR SUFFERING, OR IF YOU COUNT PROPORTIONALLY OR IN ABSOLUTE FIGURES (no, we don't have the final figures as yet but the records are already overwhelming after a brief scratch on the surface of islam, & contrary to e.g. Christianity islam never showed any sign of stopping its evil slavery before it was forced to - in fact, it continues to this day - so today's eager efforts/bias to downplay islamic slavery is a deliberate defamation of all the forgotten genocides/victims of islamic ideology).