Yes pretty much. From raids in France, from raids in England, from the length of the Volga down to the Black Sea. They brought captives back from everywhere. There was a preference for women.
And they left a bunch behind. I got the Ancestry DNA test and I’m 77% German with 5% Norwegian.
Madness! Slavery was invented by Americans in 1619 because they hated black people!
“And they left a bunch behind.”
That too! LOL
My brother did the ancestry test. It came back as 15% Scandinavian. We were talking about it and I scoffed since most of our ancestors were from the British isles. Then it dawned on me........