A great host of captives? A note on Vikings in Morocco+Africans in early med Ireland+Britain http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/09/a-great-host-of-captives.html …pic.twitter.com/CCSxgkItGp
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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 …
Incidentally, 'Viking' mice also known in Scotland, Ireland, Iceland+Greenland, though apparently not Newfoundland:https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-12-35 …
@caitlinrgreen thanks for posting - fascinating, esp mtDNA halotypes which are the clincher. Of course tho' p'haps (likely?) a single vessel
@peterfrankopan Yes, C14+mtDNA works well here. Safest to assume single vessel, but poss more? Vikings def visited Morocco several times...
@peterfrankopan (assuming Al-Bakrī's account can be trusted, ofc!)
@caitlinrgreen no problem with Morocco, esp given Portuguese info. Madeira looks dead cert cos of mtDNA; frequency of visit another matter!
@peterfrankopan Absolutely! Fwiw 'Viking' mice also found Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, but not Newfoundland...may or may not be significant?
@caitlinrgreen good follow up proof. Mauritania etc. Any links to moors Spain will emerge. ..? So silk trade looks pretty deep
@HyettNeal Def textual evidence of Vikings in Spain too; Mauritanian adventures an offshoot of these, it seems...
@caitlinrgreen yes it would make sense Norwegian /Danes down Biscay (Iberia ) and onto Mauritania also. Maybe to West Africa cert Tunis (?)
@caitlinrgreen fascinating how the whole thing is traversing from archaeology to history to finally genetics and biotechnology :)
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