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To: SunkenCiv

I was talking about the Orkneys, not England proper. The article I was responding to said something about a "Viking" settlement built over a site previously populated by Picts & made the claim that the Vikings wiped out the Picts, which is very possible. The Picts were "pirates", so in my mind, there could have been back & forth between two different populations for generations on the Orkneys.


64 posted on 09/16/2006 11:45:45 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: GoLightly

The Viking men did take women and children along when colonizing, but back & forth does seem likely.


65 posted on 09/17/2006 11:42:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Saturday, September 16, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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