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Being and equal part Norwegian as well as English, I couldn't help notice that Great Britian was invaded by them. Is there any vesteds of that now?
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The Orkney Islands maintain very strong links with Norway, particularly Bergen.
Most inhabitants of the Shetland Isles are of Norwegian descent.
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I found this website which gives some interesting basic information. Put www in front
vikingart.com/Vikings.htm
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Thanks all who answered.
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Hi waralan ,
you might try "Googling" Viking DNA. There was a televised research project to see how many present day Scottish islanders had Norwegian/Viking DNA.
The conclusion was that ,rather than being a war like invasion, they intermarried with the Celtic populations.All of the descendants had variations in their Viking Ancestry.
Spring
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Springbrook, thanks I will try that.
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Hi
Viking place names particularly in Yorkshire and words within the English language
http://www.viking.no/e/england/e-viking_english.htm
As far as Iceland is concerned it was a two way process
'Most Icelanders are descendants of Norwegian settlers and Celts from Ireland and Scotland, brought over as slaves during the age of settlement. Recent DNA analysis suggests that around 66 percent of the male settler-era population was of Norse ancestry, whereas the female population was 60 percent Celtic'
After the Vikings came the Normans who are often perceived just as french but where in fact
'The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of mostly Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock. Their identity emerged initially in the first half of the tenth century, and gradually evolved over succeeding centuries. The name "Normans" derives from Nortmanni (Northmen), after the Vikings who founded Normandy.'
Sources Wikipedia
Regards
Valda
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Valda, from my understanding either Eric the Red or his son discovered Ice Land.
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Hi
Greenland not Iceland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Iceland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_the_Red
Regards
Valda
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Valda, you're probably right. I don't know which side of the Alantic you are on, but in the States, there are at least one on computor, online doccumentry , but I emailed it to a person in England. but it was not acessable to her.
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There's plenty of evidence that Eric the Red did not discover Iceland - Valda's right, it is Greenland you're thinking of :)
The results of recent carbon dating work, published in the journal Skírnir, suggests that the country may have been settled as early as the second half of the 7th century.[14]
The first known permanent Norse settler was Ingólfur Arnarson, who built his homestead in Reykjavík in the year 874. Ingólfur was followed by many other emigrant settlers, largely Norsemen and their Irish slaves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland
As Erik the Red was not born until 950 or so, he can't have discovered Iceland :)
Cheers
Prue
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Prue, I stand corrected.
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Prue, and others I see there is a part of the British Isles that were once under what was known as Dane Law.
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Yes, there is plenty of information about Danelaw on the web, including:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw
Basically it was the parts of England (mainly in the north and east) that were inhabited and ruled by Nordic settlers and their descendants, as distinct from the earlier Anglo-Saxon people.
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PrueM, I would suspect that covers my grandfather's home county, Cambridgeshire.
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I believe it did cover at least part of the area now (or previously) known as Cambridgeshire, but I'm not really an expert in the Danelaw :)
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Thanks Prue M.
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Tonight on Channel 4 at 8 p.m. there is a Time Team Special: The Real Vikings.
Time Team are following digs around the country that have uncovered a lot of archeaology and provides an insight to the Viking way of life. (Or so it says in my paper)
Jean