hello friends my name is Arith Härger and today I'm going to talk about the "Black" Viking
now, my previous video was myself expressing my thoughts on racism and
diversity and etc and I will leave a link down below in the description for that video
and given the circumstances I thought it will be interesting to tell
you about the tale of the Black Viking now this is a true historical account
with a few fantastical elements here and there to beautify the tale but no less true
and I advise you to turn on the subtitles because there will be a few
strange names as it is normal when we are dealing with Scandinavian studies
so let's get started
this is a story about a man named Geirmundur Heljarskinn
born in Rogaland (Norway) between the years 850 and 950 A.D.
he was one of the first explorers to settle in Iceland going with the early Viking expedition teams
this is not a fictional character from Norse mythology or the
Sagas as I have said, this person is in fact an historical figure and nowadays
in Iceland people can still trace their bloodline through genetic tests to this
ancestor of theirs - and such tests have been performed
he was a "black" Viking
but not in the way you might think not black because he was of African ancestry nor
because he was so evil that he gained this seemingly ominous title of being
"dark" when darkness is associated with evil, mystery, death and even magic
he was black or dark according to the perception of the people of these times
the reactions people had in relation to this man are really interesting and
makes us wonder about certain attitudes society as towards people who are physically different
the rather short story of Geirmundur Heljarskinn
is present within the Landnámabók which is "The Book of Settlements"
a medieval Icelandic written record which describes the settlement of
Iceland by the Norse between the 9th and 10th centuries
if you research the story
it's called Geirmundar þáttr heljarskinns and this story is about
Geirmundur and his brother Hámund
this account comes in great detail about the
lineage of r Geirmundur which I will not tell it here so we can go straight to the point
suffice it to say that there was a man called Hjör
doing the regular raiding and pillaging to obtain wealth
this Hjör went raiding in Bjarmland the westernmost part of Siberia where there
was a great trading activity between the natives and the Norse
Hjör took as a hostage of value a young Siberian woman called Ljufvina the very daughter of the "king" of Bjarmland
Hjör ended up marrying this woman, now in Siberia there were no kings
these were nomadic people so it's quite possible that this whole story of
her being a princess was made up to have a royal justification for her to become
a queen in Norway otherwise without a royal lineage she would have no claim to the throne
the majority of Siberians are of mongol
origins - with dark air and skin - and Ljufvina was no exception
now speaking of genetics we know that when two people both having different skin colors from one another
the darker pigmentation tends to thrive
and to be more visible but this is nowadays that we have this knowledge
back in medieval times people expected their sons to follow their father's
lineage therefore more prone to look like their fathers, Hjör was a man with
Nordic features so people were surprised when Ljufvina gave birth to two boys with dark hair and skin
to the ancient Scandinavian societies people with
darker skin colors were considered to be well... black, but being black during
these times at least in ancient Scandinavia wasn't necessarily a motive
for prejudice, intolerance, the only problem here was the fact that the
father was white, tall, fair of hair and the social belief that children should
look like their fathers, these were patriarchal societies
another problem was that the children looked nothing like the royal lineage of
kings and queens of Norway they looked much more like Thralls - slaves - and this was
absolutely unconceivable for Nobles
this isn't a case of racism in ancient societies
the problem wasn't directly due to their skin
the problem was breaking the royal lineage
the secret of the two brothers
Geirmundur and Hámund was kept by the family and a few trustworthy people
a white slave woman had given birth to a son and so they replaced the two
brothers for this white skinned baby from a slave, the two brothers
lived as slaves within their own father's household, as I have said
it didn't matter at all if the boys had light-skin or dark-skin, the only thing
that mattered was the fact that they were sons of the king and carried within
themselves many of the noble and royal virtues of this great lineage
independent of the dark skin, the two young boys grew up and became healthy
resilient, strong and intelligent, all the characteristics associated with royalty
while the young white prince grew up weak, cowardly and not very clever
a verdict of his slave ancestry according to this account and the beliefs of this time
when the boys reached the age of four it was clear to
those who knew the secret that no one could hide the truth any longer that the
slave boy who looked like a prince had no nobility at all, he only had the
colour considered "right" because it was the colour closer to the colour of Hjör
and nothing more
well finally the mother brought forth
the two brothers and told the truth to the king, yeah the King had absolutely
no idea about this swapping-babies-scheme, the King was only surprised by
the color of their skins because he had never seen before such darker skins
but he believed the boys were his sons therefore the boys gained this nickname
"heliarskinn"(dark-skin).
the boys grew up to be great warriors and Raiders
accumulating wealth and honor and perfectly accepted by the society they lived in
finally Geirmundur, like his father before him, travelled to Bjarmland (Siberia)
and returned with another Siberian wife - Illþurrka
together they settled in Ireland and then in Iceland where they became a very powerful family
the truth of this story has been confirmed by DNA tests of
living Geirmundur's descendants living in Iceland who have mitochondrial well....
maternal DNA which indicates their mother's Asian/Mongolian ancestry
all right friends thank you so much for watching and I hope you have enjoyed
this short tale which is a true historical account and I thought it
would be interesting to present you with this story after the previous video I have done
so thank you so much for watching see you on the next video
all the links to my social media are down below at the description and well
tack för idag! (thank you for today!)

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