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To: SunkenCiv

My dna testing (two different) indicated I was 18% Scandinavian. Considering my genealogical research shows near 100% Anglo/Celtic surnames, I’d guess Norse invasions were pretty common back then.


45 posted on 01/04/2015 2:22:28 AM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: catfish1957

The Michael Wood documentary “The Story of England” (just got it, watched it twice, or rather listened to it and watched it depending on where I was in the house) has quite a bit about the long series of transitions mostly in one small set of villages for which there’s a remarkable paper trail. By the time it fell under Viking rule, the Celts and Romano-Celts had adopted the language and culture of the Angles/Saxons. The roughest period was the Norman Conquest.


51 posted on 01/05/2015 11:58:38 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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