The British Isles were invaded by various races of Dubh Galls, nigrae gentes, or black foreigners, during an indefinable but most extensive period…
The Picts Proper and the Black Danes, being both Moors and both being "black strangers" or dubh galls, in the sight of the white races of Britain...
“Dubhghall (literally the black foreigner) was a name which they (the Irish) frequently gave to their Danish invaders”
SOURCE;
(The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume 22; 1850)
“They were of two RACES — the white and black strangers — Fingall and Dubhgall (Dougal)”
SOURCE;
(London Quarterly Review Volume 34; 1870)
“In A.D. 838, the Fiongaill, the “white strangers”, or Norwegians, took possession of Dublin; and in the year 850, these were dispossessed by a considerable force of the Dubhgaills, or black strangers, the Danes”
“Philologists inform us that the compound term dubh-loch-lanach, or "black man strong at sea," signifies the Danes.”
SOURCE;
(Michael Conran, ‘The National Music of Ireland Containing the History of the Irish Bards, the National Melodies, the Harp, and Other Musical Instruments of Erin’; 1846)
“The two RACES of the Danes and Norwegians were distinguished by the terms Dubhgeinte or Dubhgall, that is, black pagans or black strangers, and Finngeinte or Finngall, white pagans or white strangers”
SOURCE;
(Studies in the Topography of Galloway
Being a List of Nearly 4000 Names of Places, with Remarks on Their Origin and Meaning, and an Introductory Essay; 1887)
“In the first half of the fifteenth century, the Dubh-glasses of Galloway—the “Moors and Saracens” of tradition—were its actual rulers…” — David MacRitchie
The country inhabited by the Cimbri was, it is stated, the modern Denmark and Holstein, which, indeed received from them the name of Cimbrica Chersonesus, or the Peninsula of the Cimbri…
But those Cimbri are said to have been known by
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