Did the Vikings have African slaves?

[Pallantides]

Idunno, when I look at people like Garm I have to wonder...

Not many Norwegians look like him though.... a rare case.

[Grumpy Cat]

Idunno, when I look at people like Garm I have to wonder...

He actually looks like a good friend of mine, who is Amerindian.

[Aces High]

this movie says they did.

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The movie depicts vikings with horns in their helmets too.......so i dont think too much emphasis was placed on reality.

[Magister Eckhart]

I have not seen a single Norwegian, Swede or Dane at 23andMe with any African admixture, so if they had African slaves they didn't have any impact on the Scandinavian genepool.

Though Norway did have trade connection with the Tunisians in the High Middle Ages and their envoys visited the court of Håkon Håkonsson, but I assume this thread is only about Sub Saharan Africans and not North Africans.

No, they had mostly Celts as slaves.

Also Baltic and Slavic slaves.

The Vikings kept slaves of almost every group they ever came in contact with. The lack of influence on the gene pool, though, is not restricted to Negroids-- the predominance of the Nordic type throughout Scandinavia is evidence that breeding with slaves was minimal if it happened at all.

[Ivanushka-supertzar]

While everyone seem to glorify vikings, I imagine them as primitive drunk savages who could do impossible things only because of their permanent drunk condition. Ive heard stamina of drunk people is way higher, nervous system is affected and slow so you dont feel any pain etc. That's my theory on vikings.

[Aces High]

While everyone seem to glorify vikings, I imagine them as primitive drunk savages who could do impossible things only because of their permanent drunk condition.

You mean like the red army..?

[Magister Eckhart]

While everyone seem to glorify vikings, I imagine them as primitive drunk savages who could do impossible things only because of their permanent drunk condition. Ive heard stamina of drunk people is way higher, nervous system is affected and slow so you dont feel any pain etc. That's my theory on vikings.

Not far from my own. They were the dregs of Nordic society, a bunch of drunken brawlers and brigands who committed acts of rapine and savagery against unarmed innocents. There is nothing glorious about the practise of "going a-Viking". The glory of the Norse was won on even battlefields against powerful, armed foes, not in acts of rape, pillage, and destruction against defenceless women and monks.

[Ivanushka-supertzar]

You mean like the red army..?

well, vikings were the first who come up with this.

[Don Brick]

You mean like the red army..?

Legacy of Rurik.

[Aces High]

well, vikings were the first who come up with this.

Yet the Russians cling to the concept like a cheap suit clings onto a fat sweaty man.
"niet wodka...niet war"