re: Vikings Valhalla:sharpen your axes, the wait is OVER, starts today Friday 2-25 on Netflix

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Either do a historical piece or don’t we know it’s mostly fiction but there were NO black Vikings it ruins the whole vibe n every scene she is put

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When I first saw her I thought it was actually going to be a cool interpretation of Gerimund the Black-Skin. He and his sibling are assumed to be real vikings, however, they were half half-Nordic, half-Mongolian.

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Hjor is called Hjør in Norvegian, and Hjorr in Old Norse, a word that means sword. Hjor and Ljufvina reigned as king and queen at Avaldsnes when Harald Fairhair came to power.

Hjor was the last of the kings at Avaldsnes who descended from the Augvald dynasty. His wife Ljufvina was a princess of Mongolian descent and despite her dark skin and unusual looks, she reigned as queen over the Norsemen at Karmsundet.

Hjor and Ljufvina had two sons: the twins Hamund (Håmund) and Geirmund. They, too, had dark skin and were therefore nicknamed Heljarskinn; the “Black-Skinned”.

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But nope. It was just some lazy, "I'm from Africa so don't worry about it" writing.