Land of the Ebony Valkyries: The Empire of Viking Ghana

elkarlo

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Interesting. Although, I can imagine the Vikings might find Ghana to be bloody hot compared to Scandinavia.

As interesting as it seems, I fear that tropical diseases would wipe them out pretty quickly. Even before they could really inter mix
 
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Nice update.

IMO, vikings are familar with African Black people (there was a lot of black man in Arab World). So i think Vikings might deduce they are somewhere in Africa.

Thanks, I hadn't thought about that. Still, the contact would have been very touch and go, and it would have been in a more familiar Mediterranean context, not sub-Saharan Africa. The clothing and languages of black people in Tunisia would have been considerably different than of those from Ghana, unless they were merchants.

Of course they won't immediately understand they are in Africa, I believe Sahara blacks are not as black as Western Africa, or I'm wrong :rolleyes:.
But maybe after shock of first meeting goes they will gather their mind.

While their would be some from the South, the population of North Africa has never been black, at the time it would be primarily populated by the northern Berber tribes (who range from moderate white to deeply tanned white and overall look South European), Arabs (who would be light tan to deep tan) and the Arab-berbers (who'd be light to medium tan looking), so it's not hard to imagine a group of pagan Vikings from Denmark would'nt have idea about an actual black African.
 
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