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Vikings, Victims of Bad Press
Except for the Raping and Pillaging Part . . .
Historians will try to redress the balance today at a conference at the University of Cambridge and show that the Vikings who settled in Britain and Ireland were technologically sophisticated, swapped ideas and often lived in relative harmony with Anglo-Saxons and Celts. |
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My father in law is from Yorkshire. His name is Newton. I've suspected that his name is a corruption of Knute's son. The Viking museum in York is pretty interesting.
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The original Celtic and subsequent Germanic invaders of the British Isles are all R1b1b2 Haplotype. For the most part, the Viking invaders were of the I haplotype. I have two friends who did their DNA testing. One is of Scottish descent, and the other is originally from the Northern coast of England. Both were haplotype I, so they are descenants of Viking invaders.
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is it not funny...
How the Romans (And much later the "Southerners") [who have always held
themselves out to be so much more civilized and technologically advanced than the Irish and the Scottish] could'na overcome the Celts[Keltoi]... and yet the Norseman "Set up camp" and intermarried with the Celts[Keltoi]? The Norsemen did not receive any positive "Press" from her brittanic majesty's forebears for the simple reason that they were in competition with Londinium.
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