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To: Albion Wilde
"native Irish"

You have to remember that, according to some genealogists and historians, many Irish are descended from Norwegians. I heard an historian at the Milwaukee Irish Fest some years back give a lecture where he basically said Brian Boru and his warriors were Norwegians who repelled other Norwegians at the Battle of Clontarf. He got a laugh from the people listening.

51 posted on 02/17/2010 7:41:06 AM PST by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: driftless2
You have to remember that, according to some genealogists and historians, many Irish are descended from Norwegians.

As I am well aware. Yet I was referring to the period of time in which clans took names, and towns were named for the clans living there. Coulter, the name, came from a Scottish clan/village. The Scots settlement of Ulster and the incursion of the Coulter clan into Ulster came many centuries after the Viking incursion into Ireland.

56 posted on 02/17/2010 10:45:59 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Liberals love the poor so much they came up w/ a plan to create millions more of them. - Ann Coulter)
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