MICMAC
"Micmac" is derived from the Old Norse words " meget myrkt " meaning "much black."
Farley Mowat proposed that the Albans including the Micmac, a people having black hair and eyes, fled to America ahead of the Vikings. (Mowat, 1998/2000)
A supplemental hypothesis is that when the Albans fled from Iceland, they sailed in two directions. Some of the Albans, may have sailed to northern Norway where they remain today as the Sami (Laplanders). The Sami wear black clothes tailored similar the Micmac.
Barry Fell and others have examined the ancient Micmac symbols. They propose that the origin of the Micmac may be Egyptian. Perhaps an old culture of Egyptian ancestors overlaid with younger Alban ancestors might describe the historic Micmac culture.
Whatever the case, the Old Norse saw the people as having " meget myrkt "
