On Beads and Boats: Merovingian beads travelling through time and space

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By: Mette Langbroek

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Intro:

What do beads and boats have in common? In Merovingian Europe, just about everything. Just like boats, Merovingian beads travelled through time and space, across huge distances, into other worlds and back again.

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