Back in October, I traveled to England on business to visit our parent company located in the East Riding of Yorkshire, the city of Hull. Beautiful country BTW and the people were extremely nice and friendly even as, although we supposedly speak the same language, I had trouble understanding a lot of them. LOL!
I was amazed how so many of the people in this area of England were blue eyed and blonde. They looked rather more like Scandinavians than what I think of as being typically English. But I visited one of the local museums and learned that this area of England had been heavily settled by Vikings. My ancestors evidently got around.
As I recall, the viking/norse settled areas in Italy, Russia and Normandy was definitely ‘invaded’ and influenced genetically, those years ago.