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To: SatinDoll
I remember hearing something to this effect decades ago when I was an undergraduate.

It wasn't necessary Viking raiders carrying off female slaves, but Vikings settled in places like the Hebrides, the Isle of Man, and the Orkney islands who had children by the local women. Some of the descendants of these unions must have been among the initial colonizers of Ireland.

12 posted on 03/23/2010 8:51:46 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Clan MacDougal originated with a son of King Hakkon the first. The clan coat of arms shows longships and I read somewhere that the clan could put several thousand men at sea at one time.


16 posted on 03/23/2010 9:16:27 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT,NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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