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Fun Fact I discovered recently: In the Prose Edda (Which is one of the two main sources we have for Norse Myth) Thor is described as being the son of Memnon, who is a hero from the Trojan cycle who fought the side of Troy.
Memnon is also from what the Greeks called aethiopia, which was the land south of Egypt. This in turn means that Thor was partially African.
The rest of the Asgardians were, in turn, described as descending from turks
Yes, and the Anglo-Saxons once hyped up their lineage by including, among others in the Ancestry of Woden, Noah, Priam, Thor, Beowulf, Jupiter and Saturn.
In examining what we take for granted as historical facts, one must take care to consider what agendas may be at hand.
In this case, whoever wrote the Prose Edda likely was attempting to establish legitimacy in a similar way, by creating a connection where there was none before. Writing to your audience is one thing, but appealing to the powers that by subsuming local beliefs into a canon of literary works well-regarded by the ruling body just makes sense.
In addition, the mythological canon of the Greeks...they called the Scythians Amazonian women because they had long hair, rode horses, and shot bows, so I'm kinda skeptical what their idea of a Aethiopian was.