Posted on 03/13/2009 10:24:11 AM PDT by BGHater
From the moment that they ransacked a remote priory at Lindisfarne in 793, the Vikings have had a bad press.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles entry for the year says that the raiders made lamentable havoc in the church of God in Holy-island, by rapine and slaughter, fixing the popular image of the Vikings for the next 1,200 years. New evidence suggests that many of the Norse invaders were in fact model immigrants.
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.
The latest evidence does not point to a simple opposition between Vikings and natives, said Fiona Edmonds, of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the university. Within a relatively short space of time and with lasting effect the various cultures in Britain and Ireland started to intermingle. Investigating that process provides us with a historical model of how political groups can be absorbed into complex societies, contributing much to those societies in the process. There are important lessons that can be gained from this about cultural assimilation in the modern era.
The findings are based on new archaeological evidence, historical studies and analysis of the language, literature and coinage of the period. Together they illustrate how between the 9th and 13th centuries, the Vikings became an integral part of social and political life in Britain and Ireland and changed both countries more profoundly than is generally realised.
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Wow, quite a scene.
“British cuisine?” I am unfamiliar with the concept. The juxtaposition of those words appears a bit incongruous, at least.
I had my done here:
The Genographic Project (Have Your DNA Checked, Find Your Roots
Well, near as I can figger it has a lot to do with boiling stuff you wouldn’t normally think would be very good boiled. Beef, for example. And you’d be right.
Thanks. My broher had his down and seem there is some linkage to ........
If you and your brother have the same father and mother, your DNA will be the same. (At least for genological purposes)
Boreas, I was suprised to find that my mtDNA is haplpgroup 'V' as are 52% of the Skolt Sa'ami of northern Finand. (Reindeer herders) But, so are Benjamin Franklin and Bono(U2) so..I'm cool.
My dad's mother, Mrs Smith, is related to 9,000 Year Old Cheddar Man haplogroup U5a (Ancient DNA), another haplogroup popular with the Sa'ami. Haplogroup U5a is very old.
I think the 'V's' and U5a's followed the decline of the glaciers north as they melted.
BTW, there is a 23,000 year old Cheddar Man too but I don't know anything about him. Oppenheimer mentions him in his book, Origins Of The British which you'd like.
Do you know of any instances where the descendants of the invaders and the homelanders didn't assimilate within 500 years while living in the same neighborhood?
your right, no one in England would have any idea or opinions on what is going on in America. Professors never have a liberal agenda, especially those in the UK. In fact they sit back and mind their own business when it comes to politics.
Even if this guy doesn’t have an agenda those who run with the story will. I can tell you right now that there are no historians in the world who don’t have a political slant, a reason for why they say what they say. No one in their right mind would say that everything the Vikings did where bad. However we look at the Vikings we can not get away from the fact that for the most part they sailed in their boats, attacked settlements and took away the loot to their homeland.
Every paper ever written on history has an agenda. What is the agenda?
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