Al-Bakrī's 11thC account of the mid-9thC Viking raid on Nakūr [Nekor, Morocco], from his Book of Roads and Kingdoms:pic.twitter.com/Lg0bcmZb1y
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Al-Bakrī's 11thC account of the mid-9thC Viking raid on Nakūr [Nekor, Morocco], from his Book of Roads and Kingdoms:pic.twitter.com/Lg0bcmZb1y
Potential evidence from mice bones for Vikings on the island of Madeira in 903–1036 cal AD: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1780/20133126 …pic.twitter.com/cyz3r8wHWi
Post also mentions the 3 poss burials of African women from 9th-11thC England, incl N. Elmham burial discussed here: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1311/1/1311.pdf
In 2013, another poss burial found Gloucs, said to be of a woman from Sub-Saharan Africa+dated 896-1025 AD:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-24106956 …
@caitlinrgreen There's a local trackway known as "Boreen na mBan gorm" close to the Viking City of Waterford http://www.odwyer.net/~dunmore/stories/bothar.htm …
@Odubhlainn Oh, very interesting indeed! Thank you---will have to look into this! :)
@caitlinrgreen It's a bit of a local enigma, and runs along this headland with steps to the water at the endhttp://binged.it/1QxbSlX
@Odubhlainn @caitlinrgreen Very interesting. Doubt its Viking though. Clearly a well used maritime access point on 1st OS...
@Odubhlainn @caitlinrgreen Maybe @Limerick1914 can help? Any big slave traders using Waterford port, Liam?
@VoxHiberionacum @Odubhlainn @caitlinrgreen Earliest known presence of enslaved Africans in Munster in the early modern period is in 1591.
@Limerick1914 @VoxHiberionacum @Odubhlainn Out of curiosity, any arch evidence for African ppl in early med Ireland like that from Norfolk?
@caitlinrgreen wow quite a revelation but indeed possible that they might have reached the iberian coast
@Umarkarim89 Definitely in Iberia and also at least once in North Africa, on basis on material other than the Irish annals! :)
@caitlinrgreen obviously makes lots sense logically too.Muslim Histories of the time must also be explored as if they relate any such thing
@Umarkarim89 oh, yes, definitely!
@caitlinrgreen Yes as Muslims have captured the whole of North Africa by the mids of the 8th century so in 9th century they were there
@Umarkarim89 Absolutely! And Muslim writers def mention the Vikings, see last tweet which was prob based on earlier material!
@caitlinrgreen Read the whole thing wonderful and very interesting. If i had been knowledgeable of Arabic would have worked on it :)
@Umarkarim89 Thanks! It's certainly an interesting topic :)
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