Do you have any articles/ studies done on this?
Not just the quoted part, but all the other statements you have made?
Because, I have linked some, from different places, so I would expect you to do the same.
Like, for example, this article talks about Vikings sacking a town in Mauretania ( Morroco of today ) which was a black skin population.
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So, yeah, let's ty to present some actual studies, or data, not just personal opinions.
P.S. I would not have initiated the "racism discussion" if someone would have not asked to "not include black or muslim " characters. So, no, stopping to talk about racism when others are clearly racists and ask to not include black people is not the way to stop racism.
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Search for black or africa. It is difficult to point at documents of something, that does NOT exist to begin with.
In this case, the LACK of document, is the only proof that can be offered, since they'd have no reasons to document something, that at the time, was completely normal (ie: lack of blacks of arabs in their ranks). Like I said earlier, if it was a thing, it would have been documented, especially since it would have been something so strange at the time, as blacks and arabs were really not something people used to encounter, except around the meditarrean. As for blacks, it's a known fact that aside from the Romans, they did not spread in Europe until the US colonization period. As such, any encounters with such a rarity for the time, would have been documented here and there. But, there are no traces aside from the very interpretable quotes you linked.
In the middle age, "the black" would usually refer to someone giving death, or surviving the plague (having black marks on the body from bruising and other illnesses of the time blackning the body.) Add to this the translation issues at the time, the vikings supposedly calling someone 'the black', could mean absolutely anything, from death giving, to unlucky.
This is also why we know they were mostly blondes and redheads, because of how abnormal and rare it was. It ended being reported and widespread, unlike the blacks of the viking tribes, that literally, nobody has ever heard about, or seen.
Here's a link that doesn't mention blacks or arabs, but only europeans, which we know were a mix of whites and slavs at the time:
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Face it, there were virtually no blacks in Europe until the end of the middle age period. You can wish it any other way, but it simply was not so.
If you're not satisfied with that, there's nothing I can do about it. Even the genes found to date don't back your wishes.
It does however back the fact there were more dark haired than originally thought, although, it does not specify any numbers or percentages, so that could be anything from 10 to 20% or more, or less... The blade' still hanging on that one