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
“Duff, a surname adopted from the Celtic, in which? language
the word means black. Sibbald, in his History of Fife, says,
” that as Niger and Rufus were names of families amongst
the Romans, from the colour and complexion of men, so it
seems Duff was, from the swarthy and black colour of those
of the tribe,” or clan of Macduff.”
-The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland (1877) by William Anderson
“The adjectives Dubh black, and Fion or Fin white prefixed by the Irish, were indicative of the relative complexion of these tribes or rather of the colour of their hair. Fingal was probably a a settlement of the Fair-haired Strangers; Donegall or Dubh-Gail of those of darker hue”
-Historical memoirs of the city of Armagh (1819) By James Stuart
“This is one of the war vessels on Victoria
Nyanza, whose archaic structure helped us to understand
the very? beginnings of shipbuilding (Fig. 7).
Chatterton {Sailing Ships and their History, p. 109)
notices “the many points of resemblance of the
Scandinavian ships” to certain types of Phoenician
vessel. By 1000 B.C. the Phoenicians had begun to
take over the Aegean traffic of the outer ocean, so
that the Swedish boats may possibly be craft born
of Punic inspiration.”
-Ancient mariners : the? story of ships and sea routes (1928) by Cyril Daryll Forde
“Brinton is inclined to derive the Aryan from this third source; the languages of the? Hamitic peoples of northern Africa. Keane,* following out this thought, is inclined to regard the Basque as another European relic of the same primitive stock. This theory of an Afro-European? origin of the Aryan speech has much to recommend it, especially in view of the undoubtedly negroid physical affinities of the most primitive substratum of European population.”
-The Races of Europe by (1899) by William Zebina Ripley
“Then began the discoveries of abundant prehistoric remains all over Europe, particularly in France. These with one accord tended to show that the European aborigines of the stone age were not Mongoloid like the Lapps after all, but the exact opposite. In every detail they resembled? rather the dolichocephalic negroes of Africa”
-The Races of Europe by William Zebina Ripley(1899)
“Dougal, a surname derived from ßhu-gal, the Gaelic for dark complexioned stranger,? this being the name given to the son of the famous Somerled, lord of the Isles, who flourished in the twelfth century, and the patronymic of his descendants, the clan M’DugaL”
“Macdougall, or Macihigaia, a clan who derive their descent and their name from Dugall, the? son of Ranald, the son of the famous Somerled. The name Dhu Gall means the dark-complexioned stranger.”
“Another form of the name is Macdowall, used especially by those of the race who possessed lands in Galloway, to which district the Dhu Galls, or black Gaels, are said to have given its name.”
-The Scottish nation? : or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland (1859) by William Anderson
“Even then, the Celtic story affirms, there wandered through the pine forests of lerne an aboriginal people ;
and its shores were the resort of Vikings, not from Scandinavia, but Africa.”
And what of the African Vikings?
“They are known in the recollection of those early times under the name of Fomorians. In the glossary of King Cormac of Cashel,? compiled not long after the age of Alfred, this word is said to signify ” under sea,”in the sense of their ships? being descried on the horizon, rising, as it were, from beneath the rim of ocean, and indicating their approach from the Atlantic rather than the narrow seas.”
-The story? of the Irish before the conquest. From the mythical period to the invasion under Strongbow (1868) by Mary Catharine Ferguson