An ?11thC account of Vikings bringing "a great host" of slaves from N. Africa to 9thC Ireland: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100017/ …pic.twitter.com/GgMYBhqMJS
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@caitlinrgreen So it means those mauritanians they remained in Ireland?? Are they still there i mean any community of theirs??
@Umarkarim89 Unfortunately, no indications survive as to how long they remained a distinct group in Ireland, if they were absorbed etc.
@caitlinrgreen i still remember Voltaire's Candid that how scores were killed as a result of an earthquake and a tsunami so anything possibl
@Umarkarim89 Indeed. Would be interesting to know what happened to these N. African 'Moors' taken into slavery by Vikings, but evidence has>
@Umarkarim89 >too many gaps---though this is part of what makes period interesting!
@caitlinrgreen exactly. i was in Morocco and there i saw that even today both Arabs and Berbers are different and have nt absorbed
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