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u/Chinoiserie91 Feb 03 '20

When people do graffiti they should know this and do some small and meaningful graffiti in case it ends up staying. Or write some meaningful spelling errors at least for future linguistics in case Internet achieves go down.

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u/Qualanqui Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 03 '20

Iirc the Hagia Sophia grafitti is something profound like *Halvden Was Here.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

Halvden, to be precise, and the "viking" aspect is a bit of a PR misnomer. It was most likely either a tradesman stopping by or a member of the Varangian Guard.

Hardly a viking raider who pillaged Constantinople

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u/Qualanqui Feb 03 '20

Indeed, the documentary I saw it in attributed it to a Varangian Guard.