By 1507 there were numerous Moors at the Court of King James IV of Scotland. An Afrikan king named Gormund ruled Ireland during the Anglo-Saxon period in England. Halfdan the Black was the first Afrikan king to unite Norway.
The original knights of England were Black including those of King Arthur's Round Table. Sir Morien was also known as Maurice the Moor or The Black Knight of King Arthur’s fame. Sir Pallamedes was described as all Black, indicating that his head, body and hands were all Black.
When the British Isles were invaded by the Vikings, some of these Norse raiders were Afrikans. A prominent Viking of the 11th century was Thorhall, a strong, giant Black man who was aboard the ship that carried the early Vikings to the shores of North America.
