The 11th-century runestone G134 referring to Blakumen (Sjonhem cemetery, Gotland, Sweden)
Blakumen or Blökumenn were a people mentioned in Scandinavian sources dating from the 11th through 13th centuries. The name of their land, Blokumannaland, has also been preserved. Victor Spinei, Florin Curta, Florin Pintescu and other historians identify them as Romanians (variation of the exonym Vlach), while Omeljan Pritsak argues that they were Cumans. Judith Jesch adds the possibility that the terms meant "black men", the meaning of which is unclear. Historians identify Blokumannaland as the lands south of the Lower Danube which were inhabited by Vlachs in the Middle Ages, adding that the term may refer to either Wallachia (to the north of the Danube) or Africa in the modern Icelandic language.
Blakumen or Blökumenn were a people mentioned in Scandinavian sources dating from the 11th through 13th centuries. The name of their land, Blokumannaland...
a Viking by the name of Rodfos was possibly killed in the area by the Blakumen who betrayed him. In 1164, the future Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos...
"Kimbalongu" in the mountains near Ohrid, which was a Vlach settlement. The names Blakumen or Blökumenn is mentioned in Nordic sagas dating between the 11th and 13th...
the region is in the 10th century by Varangian Sagas referring to the Blakumen people i.e. Vlachs in the land of Pechenegs. By late 12th century chronicle...
References to the Volokhi in the Russian Primary Chronicle, and to the Blakumen in Scandinavian sources are often listed as the first records of north-Danubian...
slays an undead witch-king named Þráinn who had been the king of Valland. Blakumen The entry Valnöt in Svensk etymologisk ordbok by Elof Hellquist (1922)...
of the Ukrainian Cossacks who developed in the 15th - 18th centuries. Blakumen Bolokhoveni Brodnici Foundation of Moldavia Romania in the Early Middle...
earliest reference to Romanians living east of the Carpathians. It refers to Blakumen who killed a Varangian merchant at an unspecified place. A competing group...
events of the late 10th century. Spinei and Georgescu propose that the Blakumen of a Varangian runestone from around 1050 are the first Romanians whose...
that a Varangian man was murdered "on a voyage abroad" by Blakumen. Both Blökumen and Blakumen may refer to Vlachs inhabiting the regions east of the Carpathians...
culture. Bjarneyjar "Bear islands". Possibly Disko Island off Greenland. blakumen or blökumenn Romanians (Vlachs) or Cumans. Blokumannaland may be the lands...
in 1257 was the last recorded event of the history of the Bolokhovians. Blakumen Spinei 1986, p. 111. Spinei 1986, p. 57. Spinei 2009, p. 161. Spinei 2009...
Rus'. (to 1019) 1050 The Swedish Runestone G134 mentions the ethnonym Blakumen as it recorded the death of Hróðfúss who was treacherously killed by Vlachs...
Saxons were given access in 1224. On a Varangian runestone in Gotland, the Blakumen (people) is mentioned. The first historian to distinguish them was László...
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