We know Vikings had tattoos not from Scandinavian sagas but from Ibn Fadlan, a 10th-century Arab scholar sent on a diplomatic mission to the Volga Bulgars. In 921 AD he met the Rus — Swedish Viking traders — and recorded that every man wore tattoos from fingertips to neck resembling trees and symbols.
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