This illustration of Viking Varangian troops near Moscow is from the chronicle of Skylitzis, he was a Greek historian, dead c. 1100
A Description of the Black Vikings of Europe By Renowned European Writers – Compiled By- Invasion2012
“blá-maðr, m. A BLACK MAN, NEGRO, i.e. AN ETHIOPIAN, Al. 51, Orkn. 364 (referring to A.D. 1152), distinguished from the Saracens and Arabians; three ‘blámenn’ were sent as a present to the German emperor Frederic the Second, Fms. x. 3: in romances blámenn are mentioned as A KIND OF ‘BERSERKERS,’” q.v., Finnb. ch. 16, Kjalnes. S. ch. 15; cp. Scott’s Ivanhoe, note B. See AN ICELANDIC-ENGLISH DICTIONARY by Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson(1874)
“The Irish annalists were a lesson to all with their division of Norse invaders into White Foreigners, Norwegians(Finn-gaill), and Black Foreigners, Danes(Dubh-gaill), but it was a lesson no one heeded; nor do we know why they distinguished them by colour.” See A HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS by Gwyn Jones(1968)
“The Welsh chroniclers, for example, made no such clear distinction. The Danes coming in by way of England and the Norwegians by way of Ireland were pretty well all black: Black Gentiles(y Kenedloed Duon), Black Norsemen(y Normanyeit Duon), Black Host, Pagans, Devils and the like.”(CONT.) See A HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS by Gwyn Jones(1968)
“Prince of Maine Mor(moor) was accompanied by his father Eochaidh, and his two sons Breasal and Amlaff.” Eochaid mac Run, known in English simply as Eochaid, was king of the Picts from 878 to 889 He was a son of Run, King of Strathclyde, and his mother was the daughter of Kenneth MacAlpin (NIGER VAL DUBH)
“There are turning hither to our shore lithe keels, ring-stags [ships] with long sail-yards, many shields, shaven oars, A NOBLE SEA-LEVY, MERRY WARRIORS. Fifteen companies are coming ashore, but out in Sogn there lie seven thousand more. There lie here in the dock off Cliff-holt surf-deer [ships] SWART-BLACK and GOLD ADORNED. There is by far the most of their host.” Helge Lay, i. 197-206.” See SCANDINAVIAN BRITAIN by William Gershom Collingwood(1908)
“There was a man hight Thorvard; he married Freydis, a natural daughter of Erik the Red; he went [219] also with them, and Thorvald the son of Erik (100), and THORHALL who was called the hunter; he had long been with Erik, and served him as huntsman in summer and steward in winter; he was a large man, and strong, BLACK AND LIKE A GIANT, silent and foul-mouthed in his speech, and always egged on Erik to the worst” See SAGA OF THORFINN KARLSEFNI.
“According to Egils Saga, of the 2 famous sons of Kveldulf, Thorolf was tall and handsome like his mothers people, but Grim took after his father was black and ugly. Grim’s sons Thorolf and Egill, born out in Iceland, repeated the pattern- Thorolf was the image of his uncle, tall, handsome and sunny-natured, and many Egill was black, even uglier than his father, totuous and incalculable,…..etc. craggy head, broad nose, heavy jaw and swart visage.” See A HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS, GWYN JONES pg 86
“The evidence indicates that Blacks in ancient times came to Britian from Spain, Felix Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, West Africa, India, Persia and what is today named Denmark. These Negroes were builders, scientists, masters of ocean travel and inventors of letters, according to Higgins, they built Stonehende, Gerald Massey agrees pg 11 Book of The Beginnings.” See Ancient and Modern Britons- MacRitchie pg 2
“The Danes, then were like the ‘MOORs’ -black. Like them, too, they were Picts, as more than one eminent writer has proved. The title of’GROM’ (WOAD-STAINED) is not confined to Highland genealogies, it was the actual name of a grim old pagan Dane who ruled over Denmark,(it meant daub).” See page 121, -David MacRitchie- Ancient and Modern Britons: Volume One (Ancient & Modern Britons)
DUBH, BLACK,SWARTHY,SWARTI
Wheres the bones? Negros have a diffrent skull than europeans. if they were truly black than it would only be logical that we would find at least one negro skull that pre dates the fall of paganism [mid 10th century(marked by the cutting of Thor’s oak in northern Germany)] just because someone is refured to as Kenneth the Black does not automaticaly african, could be black hearted ect,
Here are the bones:
According to Brace:
“Many human craniofacial dimensions are largely of neutral adaptive significance, and an analysis of their variation can serve as an indication of the extent to which any given population is genetically related to or differs from any other.
When 24 craniofacial measurements of a series of human populations are used to generate neighbor-joining dendrograms, it is no surprise that all modern European groups, ranging all of the way from Scandinavia to eastern Europe and throughout the Mediterranean to the Middle East, show that they are closely related to each other.
The surprise is that the Neolithic peoples of Europe and their Bronze Age successors are not closely related to the modern inhabitants, although the prehistoric/modern ties are somewhat more apparent in southern Europe.
It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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The data treated here support the idea that the Neolithic (i.e. Natufians with a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa) moved out of the Near East into the circum-Mediterranean areas and Europe by a process of demic diffusion but that subsequently the in situ residents of those areas, derived from the Late Pleistocene inhabitants, absorbed both the agricultural life way and the people who had brought it.
C. Loring Brace: The questionable contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to European craniofacial form; PNAS | January 3, 2006 | vol. 103 | no. 1 | 242-247
There are no ancient skeletons of the Caucasian type. The findings of Brace et al make it clear that there were no whites in ancient Europe. There were only Black Africans living there until the coming of the Europeans as noted by DuBois, Diop and Boule & Vallois.
Again another piece of incontrovertible scientific evidence that the Paleolithic Europeans were Blacks. The skeletal remains of these people as noted by Boule and Vallois recalled the tropical African type.
“So striking” writes Professor Elliot Smith, “is the family likeness between the early Neolithic peoples of the British Isles and the Mediterranean and the bulk of the population, both ancient and modern, of Egypt and East Africa, that the description of the bones of an Early Briton of that remote epoch might apply in all essential details to an inhabitant of Somaliland. (The Ancient Egyptians, p. 58.)
Geneticist Peter Underhill refines the facts:
About 80 percent of Europeans arose from primitive hunters who arrived about 35,000 years ago, endured the long ice age and then expanded rapidly to dominate the continent, a new study shows.
Researchers analyzing the Y chromosome taken from 1,007 men from 25 different locations in Europe found a pattern that suggests four out of five of the men shared a common male ancestor about 40,000 years ago….
More @ http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-original-africans-of-europe-by-ogu-eji-ofo-annu/
This also provides error. It refers to paleolithic humans, but the Vikings came long after that. Vikings were not a Stone Age civilisation. They came after the Iron Age, so this suggests only that Sub-Saharan Africans existed there before the Vikings, not that Vikings were black.
I’m not trying to discredit this theory, by the way. I support the theory of black Vikings. I see it as highly unlikely that all Vikings were blonde and blue eyes. The Vikings travelled, and they sometimes took prisoners. Many African cultures were wanderers, and they could have travelled into Europe and obviously then into Scandinavia.
You know it’s almost gotten to the point to where I really feel sorry for the ‘white race’. The lies you’ve inherited are being shattered before your eyes. *sigh* none the less the truth always hurts.
In James M. Kittleson’s ‘Luther the Reformer: the Story of the Man and His Career pg. 43 – The Protestant reformer Martin Luther is described as a SWARTHY man of medium height.
In a Short History of Germany by Emily Hawtrey and Amanda Flattery – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor due to his black swarthy complexion, he’s known also as: Enrique III El Negro de Alemania, Henry the Black (Le Noir) or Den Svarte,
William Robertson states in the Book “The Reign of Charles V, Vol 3, pg 441 – At noon Bishop Carranza, Archbishop of Toledo, who had long been expected arrived at Yuste. He was the same ‘black friar’ – so called from his swarthy visage-.
Pope Urban VI is describe in the book “Saint Catherine of Siena and Her Times” by Mademoiselle Mori as being born of a Neapolitan father and a Tuscan mother, he was short stoutly made and swarthy, with fiery black eyes.
Ruler of Milan Ludovico Sforza was one of the sons of Fransesco Sforza, Ludovico was known as “the Moor” (his complexion was swarthy). (ref. Travel Guide to Europe, 1492: Ten Itineraries in the Old World — by L. Camusso)
Byantine emperor John II Komnenos (1118-1143) is described by Latin historian William of Tyre as short with eyes, hair and complexion so dark he was known as ‘the Moor’.
Peter the Great of Russia is also described as having black eyes and hair with a swarthy complexion. (ref. A general collection of …voyages and travels, digested – by J. Pinkerton)
In the book “Peter the Great: His Life and World”, Mr. Massie describes the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold of the Hapsburgs as swarthy, of middling height, with the projecting lower jaw and protruding lower lip which traditionally marked (if not disfigured) the Hapsburgs.
in case your unfamilar with the term SWARTHY: Defined – swart, swarth, suart, [sweart = black; Dut. swart: Celt. svartr: Danish. sort: Swedish. Swart: German. Swarz: — Of a black or dark color: swarthy. (Applied especially to the skin)
Dear friends,
Do not get bogged down in this discussion. Do not waste time with discussing these matters with these eurocentrist because they were educated to be ideological racist. They do not consider blacks as equal or even as humans. Here we have an important collection European source by eurocentrist writers which confirm that there were Blacks in Europe in medieval times. I next found their descendents in the highest European nobility and royal families who identified as blue blood (1500-1789). This is a further conformation of the old sources, as these persons are described as Black:
William I of Orange: more brown then white, brown of complexion and beard
Baron Aarnout Joost van der Duyn: basanè, chimney sweeper
Anna Margaretha van Aerssen: black as chimney,
Baroness Isabelle de Charrière: not the white hands,
Charles II Stuart: The Black Boy, a tall Black man,
Rousseau: a genteel black in an Armenian coat,
Lorenzo de Medici: dark and swarthy with a flattened nose,
Charlotte Sophie of Mecklenburg Strelitz: a true mulatto face,
James Boswell: swarthy with black eyes and black hair
Anna Boleyn: very dark with black eyes and dark hair,
Elizabeth I: dark,
Baroness Germaine de Staël: too swarthy, bad complexion
Benjamin Constant: very bad complexion
My theory Blue Blood is Black Blood (1500-1789) is based on personal descriptions like these, further aided by portraits which indeed show the dark and black colouring. Some portraits often offer examples of classical African features as subnasal prognatism like in the case of Charlotte of Mecklenburg and William I of Orange. But Blacks come in many shades and with many different features; not all are prognastic. The many Moors in western art which survived the French Revolution should be regarded as symbols of blue blood. The Black Jesus’ and Black Madonna’s are symbols of Black superiority. The people I have identified as Blacks identify themselves with images of Moors in heraldry, family names and geographical names. So a Black European is mainly a person who self-identifies as Black and who looks black or coloured. Eurocentrism was invented to hide the episode of black domination which ended with the French Revolution. Ancient Regime was a Black regime. Racism against Blacks can be deconstructed as a liberation ideology, which first took hold in the US when the Colour-Line was implemented in 1691. Followed in Europe by the French Revolution (1789-1795). Yet with the many restorations of the nobility and kings whites only came into power after 1848, as the revolutions were inspired by the rich and learned black bourgeoisie. Queen Alexandra, the wife of King Edward VII (1901-1910) still practiced ‘enamelling,’ the old propagandistic trick of the black and coloured nobility to paint itself white with lead white or zinc white. The white portraits are an extension of this kind of legitimising of black rulers. These portraits are fakes or over paints regarding the skin colour and often hide classical African features. That’s why it’s often impossible to determine a person’s true features because every artist comes up with a different whitened look. Museums were established to show a revised history and Great Men like Da Vinci, William of Orange, Rembrandt, Van Beethoven, Haydn, and Goethe were only ‘discovered’ after they were whitened.
You’re taking quite a bit out of context. You also have absolutely no clue about genealogy. The people you listed all have well-recorded genealogies, and not one of them has a black in them.
Facial appearances ARE NOT evidence of ethnicity.
I love this conversation. Apparently every major figure in North European history was either black or had black ancestry … unless a photograph can be produced. But then again even a photo can be ‘whitened’ these days. I had a look in my mirror, saw my dark hair & eyes & thought, ‘hmm…maybe…’ lol. However as red hair, blonde hair, blue eyes – features that only exist in the European genepool – are no guarantee of not being African, it probably matters little. Are these European characteristics even real I wonder, or are they merely ocular illusions brought on because we are educated to be ideologically racist?
People aren’t & weren’t described with reference to their hair? Really??? Eirik the Red? Halfdan the Black? Don’t like those, then how about Harald Fair-Hair? Surely that one isn’t too ambiguous for you.
I’m assuming we’re allowed to claim Ljot the Pale & Gizur the White. Because, yeah, it’s that simple. They wouldn’t just call someone dark skinned of course, like they did with Thorolf Dark-Skin…
& I guess the less said about Thord the Cat, the better.
Seriously, get a grip! Africa has its own histories & mythologies, stop trying to steal ours. You’re trying desperately to appear educated & informed with these spurious quotes of pseudo-anthropology, but you merely come across as nonsensical, highly deluded & clearly grossly dissatisfied with your own histories.
It’s not our fault ours are better.
You sounding kinda a little bit scared by what you just read. No need to be full of angst and anger. Welcome to Rasta Livewire where we shock you with truth.
Eric the red…. In those days the colour red was used to describe the so-called white people of today. Like Eric the red neck… You get that.
Halfdan the Black… Well, look around you in Europe today and you will still see the Blacks living in today’s Europe…otherwise called the Africans!
Think!
Names with colours in them referred to hair colour. Africans had NOTHING to do with European history when speaking of the Celts and Germanics. There is absolutely no evidence of it. When people say “the Black”, it means hair colour. If it says black complexion, it refers to the black paint that the tribes put on themselves before going into battle.
This is basic history. Fucking afro-centrists wanna steal our rich culture. The first pyramids were built in Britannia, but they say the Celts were black. The first city was built in Anatolia, but the ancient Turks were black, according to these idiots. The first proper empire was Sumeria, but they say the Sumerians were black, even though their statues show they were white.
STOP TAKING OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS!
Scared??? Errr, no. Mildly humoured perhaps.
I’ve noticed a tendancy here to only answer what you believe you can deride. Except of course the derision works only in your own head.
Red was used to describe red. That’s why it was called red. And Eirik Thorvaldsson had red hair. Why leap to nonsense when the truth is not only evident, but actually told to you?
The term ‘redneck’ is derived from people working outdoors in the hot sun, so no, I don’t ‘get that’. It’s not likely he was named for a brief seasonal occurrence – very brief in Iceland. So if red meant white, then what, in your mind, did Gizur the White’s and Ljot the Pale’s name refer to. And remember, it can’t be hair colour.
Although that still leaves you to explain Harald Fair-Hair?
Is it only the hair on their heads that they never (frequently) used to describe themselves? Because that would leave titles like Forkbeard and Silkbeard just as hard to explain away as the other questions you have no answers for.
What is it exactly that you’re saying here – that a large proportion of Africans migrated to Europe & became great figures & leaders in our history (but only up until living memory), while the rest stayed in Africa and continued a tribal society until the slavers turned up? Was Europe like the land of opportunity or something & all the great, innovative African genius’ had to go there to prove themselves? Kind of unlikely, considering this legacy of awesomeness you proclaim, that none of the ones who stayed behind had the ability to invent so much as a toilet, don’t you think? How about the slavers, were they black too?
Yes, you are shocking me, but not for the reasons you think.
I don’t see where any of the evidence supplied by both sides have contradicted each other.
Thee were Africans in Europe in far flung territory. There were whites in Europe in far flung territories.
How can we begin to doubt that history has always been rewritten by the conqueror.
Stalin and Hitlers propaganda machines were not recent inventions.
There is evidence from European heraldry and Coat of arms there were significant Houses of Africans.
Hannibal came across the Alps to threaten Rome; the area across the Alps must have been under his subjugation. What is the name of this area: France;Switzerland, Then we notice to get back to the African Continent one must pass through Spain and Portugal.
To say it bluntly that is an awful lot of geo-political and economic influence. Further there was an immense amount of knowledge based influence that would have influenced the vast majority of esteemed universities acroos Europe.
(as an aside when it came to hygiene , you better wheel and come again).
There are several Central American Statues and statuettes of gods with african features. The Conquistadores met not brought Africans in the Caribbean and Central America. They met Caciques and kings clothed in lion skins, this in a territory where no lions existed. The people who were able to travel this far could not locate ireland nor eatablish a foothold there as A TRADER OR A RAIDER.
Also the Vikings with all their raids would not have ‘captured’ any africans, whether male or female. They or their progeny would have been puny runts eh. They would not have risen as huge specimens of strength hence commanding respect and territory through their participation in raids.
Hannibal wasn’t black African. He was Libyan Carthaginian. African features are not unique to Africans, when speaking of far-flung black peoples. The Negritos of South Asia and Australia are all black and have African features, yet are the single most genetically distant group of people in the world, in relation to Africans.
Wrath
your post doesn’t make any sense. You state African features are not unique to Africans, but fell to understand that Africans have been all around the world shedding their seeds. The Negritos of South Asia and Austrailia have African DNA, but according to Scientist, they have majority Asian DNA. Also, their ancestral DNA is 97% identical to Africans (hapmap.org). And finally, African oral history confirms Hannibal was A Black African.
It is clear to the readers especially after mr cogfrieds comments that you have another form of english that you comprehend besides the standard western one being used here today.your not even white nor know what it means in -law only outside which basis the weakness of your whole angle bought forth.your last name began only in the11th century before that you had no titles.we existed for 100,000 years an had titles before 6000 years ago which is what you eagle of rome represents on the right side of the dollar bill .william the conqueror became william carnegie ,, from the word carnage. watching the long ship from 1964 with sidney poitier indicates that even hollywood knew of what was before the vikings by sticking one moor in with the slavs he ruled an civilized .marc washington had pictures of the muurish kings of all europe if you cannot produce the ones that are before them then admit you learned what you were not told by your own..some hide what they know some of you really dont know.thats how you are fooled cause Its convienient for you to deny it like the vatican denies childrens sex rituals.your nature is your nomenclature.your knowledge of onomatics rates at zero starting at nero,MARC WASHINGTON HAS EXPOSED ALL THAT IS TO BE CAUSE OF WHAT WAS US NOT GUS .people werent described by WHO ,WHAT OWL ,writers who kept it unreal,YOU ARE BELIEVER NOT KNOWER .STEP UP YOUR GAME ,KNOW WHAT IT IS ,WHAT IS YOUR GAME ,TRIPLE H ,YOUR ALL BEING CRUSHED WHO BELIEVE AN DOUBT AN WAIT FOR THE RIGHT /W/HIGHT TO CONFIRM IT FOR YOU CAUSE YOU DIDNT 360 DEGREE IT TO MASTER THE KNOWLEDGE OF IT,IF THIS WAS A BOZOBLOG YOU WOULDNT BE HERE . ,are you saying what you have heard or what you know to be .its not opinions that are being written here its fact of the matter.you cannot show nor prove what god created you from the blue sky.you stay stuck in the 4th dimension when you crossover FROM CONTINOUS INFECTIOUS LACK OF CONSCIOUSNESS AN THIS WILL KEEP YOU FROM MAKING ANY TYPE OF necessary SHIFT when THE TIME COMEs ,,CAUSE YOU REFUSE TO KNOW WHAT YOU MISTAKENLY BELIEVE NOT TO BE THAT IS DAWNING IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS.THOSE DWELLING AN SMELLING IN THE DARKNESS OF DOUBT WILL GLADLY AN NOT SADLY BE CUT AND LEFT OUT FOR THE SAKE OF NOT BRINGING ANY DEAD WEIGHT ON BOARD BY CUTTNG THE FAT BEFORE IT FEEDS THE RAT ,.WITH DEADWEIGHT WE CANNOT ELEVATE OUT THE MATRIX STATE ,BETTER EARLY THEN LATE CAUSE ITS TO LATE NOT TO BE EARLY
Note the AFRICAN RULERS OF EUROPE known as Moors
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Coat of Arms LAUINGEN
Coat of Arms MORIKEN-WIDEGG
Coat of Arms OBERWOLZ
Coat of Arms UNTERFOEHRING
Coat of Arms SIMMELSDORF
Coat? of Arms HUISHEIM
Coat of Arms SCHAUENSTEIN
Coat of Arms EISENBERG
Coat of Arms ISMANING
Coat of Arms MANDACH
Coat of Arms? MEHRING
Coat of Arms BAD SULZA
Coat of Arms SEVERNA ISTRA
Coat of Arms SPASTETTEN
Africa Rulers of Europa known as Moors
GOOGLE PICTURE
Wappen von Oberwölz
? Wappen von Dovje
Wappen von Klevenz
Wappen von Severna Istra
Wappen? von Škofja Loka
Moors were Berber. Not African in the sense you’re thinking.
Actually if you look at extant evidence (paintings done at the time, not romanticized ones), you would see that the Moors were a conglomeration of multiple ethnic groups. There are paintings of blonde haired, pale skinned moors playing a chess-like game with moors of a darker skin that of most black people of today. This assumption that the Moors were of one particular ethnic group is ridiculous, when even the most cursory study of history and even muslim history show that the force that invaded spain (i.e. Moors) were not just berber, were not just Arabs, were not just “Africans”, but a conglomeration of all.
*Sigh* … You should really study before you type up belligerent foolishness. Your mistaking Moors with Mamluks my friend. Those light-skinned people your referring to as Moors were slave soldiers which were often times bought from the Khazarian empire in order to augment forces. Often times they were acquired by the locale Vandal population as tribute.
Furthermore, in the portrait of the Moors playing chess the pale skin person is indeed a servant.