title: TRUE MYTH: BLACK VIKINGS OF THEMIDDLE AGES
author:  Nashid Al-Amin 
description: Nashid Al-Amin, author of True Myth: Black Vikings of the Middle Ages, is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Harlem. A Vietnam era army veteran who served three years, he was stationed in France and Germany during the mid-1960s and spent time in four other European countriesincluding a two-week leave in Copenhagen, Denmark. Upon leaving the army, he pursued acting for a number of years but had also begun studying historyespecially the black mans role in it. Although he was an honor student in high school, his family did not have money to send him to college; however, he continued to pursue acting and to study history on his own before entering college at thirty years old. Earning a masters degree in English, he began teaching in colleges as an adjunct English professor, currently at Essex County College in Newark, New Jersey. He is a divorced father of three who has now studied history on his own for more than forty years. He began focusing on the Vikings in 1991, spurred by the buildup for the five-hundred-year anniversary of Columbus discovering America. Wondering why the Vikings were not accorded this achievement, he wrote a twenty-page research paper to try and find the answer, reading it to a class he was teaching to see their reaction. However, it was when he began a second draft that he found information that the Vikings had, in fact, been black skinnednot the blond, blue-eyed whites he had always believed. The paper expanded to sixty-five pages; then he decided he had enough information to write a book. Through financial difficulty and two lost apartments, he finally restarted work on the book in 2003 and presents the reader with startling information about the Vikings and other peoples who have inhabited Europe.
zlib_text: HUNTER'S RIGHT
  by Jaid Black
  Verily, a time of great suffering shall fall upon the whole of the world, for its women will
  dwindle in numbers. Disease shall soon spread, female babes will not be born, and bloodlines
  will die out. But, yea, the strong Vikings shall live on, for almighty Odin has seen fit to warn
  us. We are His chosen people.
  'Take to the earth, the haven bequeathed to us; the belly of the gods. Dwell below her dirt and
  leaves, now and forever, untouched by the Outsiders and their ways. Yea, let each warrior
  cling unto a wife, that his seed may bear fruit and our race prevail. Should a time come when
  there are fewer females than warriors in our stronghold, then hunt on the Outside and take
  them.
  By any means necessary, take them.
  - VIKING LEGEND
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  Arctic seacoast, Present day
  It was turning out to be one hell of a long day. The flight schedule had begun at the crack of
  dawn.
  She'd flown from Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., to Seattle in Washington State, th