Africans in Europe in the Early Medieval ages?

by Child_of_the_North

Hello! While looking for Historical oddities the other day I stumbled on a site (link provided below) that makes the seemingly extraordinary claim that Africans have had a major role in European history, such as some Vikings being African as well as Celtic priests. Some of it seems plausible but alot of it seems a bit suss.

Is there any solid evidence to the claims made?

The link: http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl?md=read;id=2225

idjet

This subject comes up occasionally, so I refer you to this post that gathers together the issues and ideas about race in the Western European Middle Ages. Feel free to read through and pose follow up questions here.