Europe Conquered

 

Black Celts (Silures) & Black Vikings vexed with the Scandinavia people.  A prominent Viking of the eleventh century was Thorhall, who was aboard the ship that carried the early Vikings to the shores of North America. Thorhall was "the huntsman in summer and in winter the steward of Eric the Red.  He was a large man and strong, black, and like a giant, silent, and foul-mouthed in his speech, and always egged on Eric to the worst; he was a bad Christian."

 

Another Viking, more notable than Thorhall, was Earl Thorfinn, "the most distinguished of all the earls in the Islands."  Thorfinn ruled over nine earldoms in Scotland and Ireland, and died at the age of seventy-five.  His widow married the king of Scotland. Thorfinn was described as "one of the largest men in point of stature, and ugly, sharp featured, and somewhat tawny, and the most martial looking man. It has been related that he was the foremost of all his men."

 

The black blood type is common even in Nordic Europe where intermixing has been happening since antiquity. 

Black slavery lasted in England for about 400 years (1440-1834), during which time much intermixing occurred.  

According to RUNOKO RASHIDI, Ancient African people, sometimes called Moors, are known to have had a significant presence and influence in early Rome.  African soldiers, specifically identified as Moors, were actively recruited for Roman military service and were stationed in Britain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Poland and Romania.  Many of these Africans rose to high rank.  Lusius Quietus, for example, was one of Rome's greatest generals and was named by Roman Emperor Trajan (98-117 C.E.) as his successor.  Quietus is described as a "man of Moorish race and considered the ablest soldier in the Roman army."

 

I turned around and saw a marvelous bust of Septimius Severus.  And then I saw busts and statues of Septimius' two sons--Geta and Caracalla and they all looked Africoid too, some more so than others.  I had stumbled (or was I divinely led?) into a room that I had no prior knowledge of filled with these images of African looking Roman emperors! 

This dynasty, known to historians as the Severan Dynasty, began with the accession to the throne of Septimius Severus in 193 C.E.  In actuality, Septimius shared the throne for two years with a certain Pesennius Niger.  Indeed, could Pesennius Niger, another of Rome's outstanding military commanders, himself have been an African?  His name certainly indicates the possibility.

Records state that Septimius was born in Leptis Magna on the North African coast (modern day Libya) on April 11, 146 C.E.  And Septimius was not just born in Africa.  Numerous pictures, busts and statues of him show him to be Black. 

Young Septimius, coming from a family of Romanized Africans, received a education rooted in Roman literature and quickly learned to speak Latin.  After his formal education was completed he adopted an official career and became a civil magistrate.  Later, he became a military commander, and this took him to Rome where he proved himself an able and popular and conscious military leader.  He is even said to have built a marble tomb for Hannibal Barca--early Rome's African nemesis.

Among other things, Septimius had a mighty arch constructed in the Roman Forum and even journeyed back to Africa, including Egypt, around 203 C.E.  Can you imagine Emperor Septimius sailing on the Nile?  Imagine what he might have thought as he gazed at the pyramids and walked through the Karnak and Luxor temples. 

 

After a distinguished career often characterized by one military exploit after another, Septimius died conducting yet another military campaign, this one in York in Britain, on February 4, 211 C. E. at the age of sixty-five, after a reign of seventeen years, eight months and three days..

Septimius Severus was succeeded in 211 by his sons Lucius Septimius Geta (211-212 C.E.) and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus aka Caracalla (211-217 C.E.).  They were in turn followed by Marcus Opellius Macrinus (217-218 C.E.) and Heliogabalus (218-222 C. E.), and then Severus Alexander (222-235 C.E.), with whose reign the dynasty culminated and who restored the Roman Coliseum to its ancient status.  

This line is known as the Severan Dynasty and the National Roman Museum busts and statues and sculptures of the representatives of this dynasty strongly testify to their African identity.  They are powerful images and like the statues and busts and sculptures of ancient Egypt I found the noses missing on all of them save one of Septimius' son Caracalla.  And the face adorning the bust of Severus Alexander, the last member of the dynasty, is even more Africoid looking than that of Septimius Severus, the dynasty's founder.