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What do Icelanders call Black People?

Posted on 29 July 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , ,

"Blamenn!" Palli, our Iceland Review photographer, shouts. "You call them Blamenn!" Of course, Palli is a leg-puller from way back, so I take this with a grain of salt. Although it's something I desperately want answered. What are black people called in Iceland? Palli's answer of "blamenn" (blue men), however dubious, is historically how the ancient ...

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Black Men in the Irish Annals

Posted on 26 May 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Africans in Ireland

Some 500 years after the Romans left The Irish annals record (Fir gorma) the Blue Men who were seized by the Vikings in Morocco. The Irish Annals classify Gorm as a black Dane or black Gall (stranger). Dubh Gall means (Black foreigner) The name Gormund is derived from Grim. The modern derivative of this is Graham or ...

Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Black History, Education, EuropeComments (2)


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