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The Swarthy Channel Research Center source library.
Every source cited across The Swarthy Channel lives here in one place: 41 works, grouped by series and topic. Each entry gives the full citation as our pages cite it, a link to a free digitized copy where one exists, and the pages on this site that draw on it. Read the originals, check our work, and follow the record for yourself.
Black Europe and the Norse World
Sagas, annals and chronicles that describe dark and swarthy kings, warriors and peoples of the Viking Age and early medieval Europe.
Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla: The Sagas of the Norse Kings, Vol. I, trans. Samuel Laing, rev. Rasmus B. Anderson, London, 1889.
Ynglinga Saga ch. 1, p. 270; Halfdan the Black's Saga ch. 1, p. 331.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: The Black Vikings Who Ruled the Seas · Series: Black Europe, The Truth They Hid
Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla Snorra Sturlusonar, ed. N. Linder and H. A. Haggson, 3 vols., 1869 to 1872; Ynglinga saga, Old Norse text.
Ch. 1: "þar eru ok blámenn". Verified in this edition (the text used by heimskringla.no).
Read it: heimskringla.no
Used on: The Black Vikings Who Ruled the Seas
Annals of Ulster, Vol. I, ed. and trans. William M. Hennessy, Dublin, 1887.
A.D. 851, p. 359; A.D. 852, p. 361; Horm, p. 367.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: The Black Vikings Who Ruled the Seas · Series: Black Europe, The Truth They Hid · The Book That Explains It All
Seán Mac Airt and Gearóid Mac Niocaill, eds. and trans., The Annals of Ulster (to A.D. 1131), Part I, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983 (online at CELT, University College Cork).
U851.3, U852.3.
Read it: Irish text · Translation
Used on: The Black Vikings Who Ruled the Seas
Annales Cambriae, ed. John Williams ab Ithel, London: Longman, Green, 1860 (Rolls Series).
pp. 20 to 21: "Gothrit filius Haraldi cum nigris gentilibus vastavit Mon"; "Maredut redemit captivos a gentilibus nigris".
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: The Black Vikings Who Ruled the Seas · Series: Black Europe, The Truth They Hid
The Book of the Settlement of Iceland (Landnámabók), trans. Thomas Ellwood, Kendal, 1898.
Part II, Chapter XIX, pp. 75 to 76: Geirmund Hellskin.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: The Black Vikings Who Ruled the Seas · Series: Black Europe, The Truth They Hid
Egil's Saga, trans. W. C. Green, 1893.
"Harold, son of Halfdan Swarthy"; Grim "was swarthy"; Egil "with black hair".
Read it: Icelandic Saga Database
Used on: The Black Vikings Who Ruled the Seas · Series: Black Europe, The Truth They Hid
G. M. Gathorne-Hardy, trans., The Norse Discoverers of America: The Wineland Sagas Translated and Discussed, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.
Saga of Eric the Red (the Karlsefni account), collated with Hauk's Book: Part I, §10, The Expedition of Thorfin Karlsefni. Other translations: J. Sephton, The Saga of Erik the Red, 1880; Arthur Middleton Reeves, The Finding of Wineland the Good, London: Henry Frowde, 1890.
Read it: Project Gutenberg · Sephton, Icelandic Saga Database
Used on: The Reality of the Black Vikings
The Russian Primary Chronicle, Laurentian Text, trans. S. H. Cross and O. P. Sherbowitz Wetzor, Mediaeval Academy of America, 1953.
Read it: Internet Archive
Jordanes, The Origin and Deeds of the Goths (Getica), trans. C. C. Mierow, 1915.
Read it: Internet Archive
Eusebius Pamphilius, The Life of Constantine, trans. revised by Ernest Cushing Richardson, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 1, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, New York: Christian Literature Company; Oxford and London: Parker, 1890.
Read it: CCEL
The Swarthy Crown and the Peoples of Britain
Works on the dark and swarthy peoples, nobles and rulers of Britain and Ireland.
David MacRitchie, Ancient and Modern Britons: A Retrospect, Vol. I, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1884.
pp. 113 to 114, the Black Danes and the Dubh Galls; p. 190, Olave the Swarthy.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: The Black Vikings Who Ruled the Seas · The Book That Explains It All · Series: Black Europe, The Truth They Hid · Series: Deep Dives, The Real History They Erased · Series: The Swarthy Crown
David MacRitchie, Ancient and Modern Britons: A Retrospect, Vol. II, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1884.
p. 20, "the tribute of the blacke armie"; pp. 404 to 405, The Black Tribes of Denmark.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: The Black Vikings Who Ruled the Seas · The Book That Explains It All · Series: Black Europe, The Truth They Hid · Series: Deep Dives, The Real History They Erased · Series: The Swarthy Crown
John Macky, Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky, Esq., London, 1733 (published by his son Spring Macky).
Character sketches of the nobles and ministers, with notes on complexion. Second edition read for The Scroll.
Read it: Second edition, Internet Archive · First edition scan, Internet Archive
Used on: Series: The Swarthy Crown · The British Spy's Notebook
Druids and Ancient Britain
Nineteenth and early twentieth century studies of the Druids and the earliest peoples of Britain.
Godfrey Higgins, The Celtic Druids, London: Rowland Hunter, 1827.
Read it: Internet Archive
David MacRitchie, "Druids and Mound-Dwellers," The Celtic Review, vol. VI, Edinburgh, 15 January 1910, pp. 257 to 272.
Read it: Internet Archive
William Winwood Reade, The Veil of Isis; or, The Mysteries of the Druids, London: Charles J. Skeet, 1861.
The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Histories of Moorish Spain, the Caliphs and the Moorish contribution to Europe.
Al-Maqqari, The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain, Vol. I, trans. Pascual de Gayangos, London, 1840.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Stanley Lane-Poole, The Story of the Moors in Spain, New York: Putnam and London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1886; reprint with a new introduction by John G. Jackson, Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1990, ISBN 0933121199.
Ziryab, ch. V, p. 81.
Read it: Project Gutenberg
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Washington Irving, The Alhambra, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832; revised edition, New York: G. P. Putnam, 1851. Online text: Fulton Edition, New York: The Century Co., 1910.
Chapter: Reflections on the Moslem Domination in Spain.
Read it: Project Gutenberg
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
S. P. Scott, History of the Moorish Empire in Europe, Vols. I to III, Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, 1904.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Budgett Meakin, The Moorish Empire: A Historical Epitome, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1899.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Budgett Meakin, The Land of the Moors: A Comprehensive Description, London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1901.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Budgett Meakin, The Moors: A Comprehensive Description, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1902.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Jalalu'ddin as-Suyuti, History of the Caliphs, trans. H. S. Jarrett, Calcutta: Asiatic Society, 1881.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Frederick Schiller, The Works of Frederick Schiller, Vol. I: Historical (History of the Thirty Years' War; History of the Revolt of the Netherlands), New York: John D. Williams, [188?].
Granada and the Inquisition, Revolt of the Netherlands, pp. 55 to 56.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley et al., eds., A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Vol. VI (L to N), M section ed. Henry Bradley, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
s.v. Moor, sb.2, sense 1.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Anonymous, The Discovery of America an Out-Growth of the Conquest of the Moors by the Spaniards, New York: Grand Union Hotel, 125 Park Avenue; printed by the Birnie Paper Company, Springfield, Mass., 1883.
28 pp., Library of Congress copy.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Ahmed Essa with Othman Ali, Studies in Islamic Civilization: The Muslim Contribution to the Renaissance (Books in Brief, abridged by Alison Lake), Herndon, VA: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2012.
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Wesley Muhammad, Black Arabia and the African Origin of Islam, Atlanta: A-Team Publishing, 2009, ISBN 9780982161890.
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
Roger Collins, Caliphs and Kings: Spain, 796-1031, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, ISBN 9780631181842.
Used on: Series: The Rise and Fall of the Moorish Empire in Europe
The Ancient World, Egypt and Greece
Greek and Roman writers on Egypt, Ethiopia, Persia and the gods.
Herodotus, The Histories, trans. A. D. Godley, 1920 (Perseus Digital Library).
Book 1 (Croesus, Cyrus, Tomyris); Book 2 on Egypt and its priests, including 2.28, 2.50 ("the names of nearly all the gods came to Hellas from Egypt"), 2.54 to 2.57 (the black dove of Dodona) and 2.59.
Read it: Perseus · 2.50 · 2.57
Used on: Series: The Ancient World Awakens · Series: Ancient Egyptian Mysteries, Esoteric Teachings from the Nile · What If the Greek Gods Were Black?
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Vols. I and II, trans. C. H. Oldfather, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1933 and 1935 (Loeb Classical Library).
Book 1 on Egypt; Book 2 on Assyria.
Read it: LacusCurtius
Used on: Series: The Ancient World Awakens
Homer, Odyssey, trans. A. T. Murray, 1919.
1.22 to 1.26 (Poseidon among the far-off Ethiopians); 11.522 (goodly Memnon).
Read it: Perseus 1.22 · Perseus 11.522
Used on: What If the Greek Gods Were Black?
Homer, Iliad, trans. A. T. Murray, 1924.
1.423 to 1.424: Zeus feasting with "the blameless Ethiopians".
Read it: Perseus
Used on: What If the Greek Gods Were Black?
Hesiod, Theogony, trans. H. G. Evelyn-White, 1914.
984 to 985: "Memnon, king of the Ethiopians".
Read it: Perseus
Used on: What If the Greek Gods Were Black?
The Aethiopis (Epic Cycle; Proclus' summary), in H. G. Evelyn-White, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, 1914.
Memnon at Troy.
Read it: Project Gutenberg
Used on: What If the Greek Gods Were Black?
Plato, Timaeus 21e, in Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9, trans. W. R. M. Lamb, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1925 (Loeb Classical Library).
"a goddess whose Egyptian name is Neith, and in Greek, as they assert, Athena."
Read it: Perseus
Used on: What If the Greek Gods Were Black?
Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis, London, 1836.
Read it: Internet Archive
Used on: What If the Greek Gods Were Black?
Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.12.1, trans. W. H. S. Jones and H. A. Ormerod, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann (Book 10 in Vol. IV, 1935).
On the Libyan Sibyl, citing the prologue of Euripides' lost Lamia.
Read it: Perseus
Sacred Texts
Early religious writings quoted in The Scroll.
The Gospel of Thomas, trans. Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer, in Robert J. Miller, ed., The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version, Polebridge Press, 1992, 1994 (Gnostic Society Library).
Saying 70.
Read it: Gnostic Society Library
Used on: The Gospel of Thomas
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