The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

11GSCANDINAVIA.A mingling of the various elements has heen produced by the continuous progressof intercourse and inland colonisation. The Byzantine coins and otherobjects found in the land show that after the fall of the Eoman Empire the Swedeshad constant commercial relations with Constantinople. Later on, Gotland58. The Finns and LArps as Scandinavia.According to Dahlman and others.oecame, towards the ninth century, the emporium of a direct export trade with thefarther east, and here are found, from time to time, hoards of Arab or Kufic coinsfrom Bagdad or Khorassan. These relations lasted till the twelfth century, whentbey were interrupted by the wars in South Russia. The Swedes took also a largeshare in the Crusades, and it was mainly through arms that the Scandinavians