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)
3 Blau Mhors (Libyan Moors/Tuaregs)
“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
Tacitus in 70 or 90 b.c.e. a Roman historian notes that the “Silures”of Britania have some who are dark skinned with “unusally curly hair”.In J.A.Rogers Sex&Race vol.1and other books
mention these darker,ancient,Brits. why do some whites and blacks doubt any ancient presence of blacks in ancient Europe? Mind control to confuse and keep minds dull without
research capabilities is strong and malevolent today as ever.
Another possibility: The earliest native peoples of Scandinavia were a darker skinned, dark-eyed and dark-haired people. What we think of as Scandinavian-looking now came from the Germanic tribes that migrated into norther Europe and far north. They were lighter skinned, with many of them blond, red-haired and blue or green eyed. Often, people in Ireland that call themselves ‘black’ are more commonly describing their dark hair. There is a theory that the “black Irish” were actually descended from sailors from the ships of the Spanish Armada blown off course after their defeat and wrecked in northern latitudes. They were taken in by Gaelic peoples and their Moorish looks may have been passed on that way.
Similarly, the early Norse settled in Normandy. It is often historically mentioned that after the Duke of Normandy – William the Conqueror – invaded England, it was easy to tell the Normans (leaner, finer bones, dark-haired, somewhat olive-skinned) from the Saxons (husky, blue-eyed, light haired) for a few hundred years. The English king defeated by William, Harold Godwinson, was described as light-haired and blue-eyed, but his brother, Tostig, who became an outcast and took to Viking ways, was dark-haired. He may have been called a “black Viking”. You must be careful with your interpretation of “black” in this case. We now use the word to describe African-descended people. They may have used it to refer to people who tended to be darker-haired than the Saxon inhabitants, in other words, the “black” was RELATIVE to the Germanic tribes.
A good book that refers often to this difference is a kind of archeological/historical novel called “Sarum”. It describes the centuries of the Salisbury plain, where Stonehenge is located. While the prehistory and more ancient chapters are based on theories and archeological evidence instead of written history, the novelist often refers to and bases his narrative on these different bloodlines.
It may also be instructive to look into the Sami people – which we now call Lapps – as they are descended from the very ancient natives of Scandinavia. There has been a fair amount of racial mixing, however.
There is also a chronicle written by a Persian or Arabic explorer that visited that area, although it seems he was only a visitor and never settled in the North.