So .. easily confused with Swedes then?
Or as dark if not darker than (say) Greeks and therefore People Of Some Colour?
How rich was the Kingdom of Aksum and how much trade did they do with India and the Roman Empire, did they travel afar from their own land?
What of their successors, the Abyssinians, did they not once have "all the gold"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleb_of_Axum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_Abyssinia#/media/...
As I stated, travelling throughout Europe, through the territories of the Roman Empire, all manner of complexions could be seen, some less frequently than others - but there were certainly rich, powerful, and very dark traders from abroad along with no shortage of Mediterrian complexions.