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[quote=wolfeyes;2948219]My great grandmother had some papers in a trunk that shows my Osborne family dates back to William the Conquerer.. A great grandfather William Fitozborn fought and won the Battle of Hastings for William the Conquerer.
It sure looks like the vikings stayed in most places they raided. They traveled southeast down the volga river and founded Russia as they were called the ''Rus''. They traveled west and settled Iceland and Greenland. They founded Danelaw in eastern Britain. They founded Englands largest northern city York. The settled Normandy in France and were called the Normans. So it looks like when they raided they looked to eventually settle down.
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They were starving people, just like impoverished immigrants. They either settled in remote and barbaric lands to become farmers or became mercenaries when confronted to superior civilizations.
Well all fun set aside they were masters of sailing the north atlantic at those frigid winter storms and rough seas as they designed ''waterproof'' clothing and vessels that could hyroplane above the water etc. and so i'm in awe at how they did that back in 800-1000 A.D.
I'm still amazed that they didn't freeze to death out in the northern seas.
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Yes, Viking Gunnar Scottie invented a contraption to transport vikings using a light beam. He became famous when he sent 1000 Vikings and their Ikea furnitures from Oslo to Constantinople.
They just reciently completed a large mtDNA study in Iceland of 1000 year old bones buried there and confirmed that the males were Scandanavian (viking) and the women were from Scotland and Ireland which suggests that they didn't bring any scandanavian women with them on their raids but also intended to settle the lands if they could and not return back Norway and Sweden which is why they took females from their raids.
Yes, they also found a Guiness tap.
Poor Vikings, their Irish wives stuffed them with potatoes and they became fat and sluggish...
That's why they disappeared!!
Yet Denmark (and southern Sweden) had been giving forth barbarian invaders for centuries before the Viking Age. Iirc, most of the Goths, Vandals, Lombards etc who demolished the Roman Empire had originated there, though they spent a few centuries migrating across modern Germany before reaching the Rhine or Danube.
The Vikings were basically the "last fling" of this movement - just a mite unusual in being launched by sea rather than overland.
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Vikings did not have anything to do with those people. Those tribes were Germanics, but mostly from Germania and Eastern Europe.
The only people related to Vikings during the Roman Empire were the Angles and the Juts, the pirates and sackers that invaded Britannia.
Poor Vikings, their Irish wives stuffed them with potatoes and they became fat and sluggish...
That's why they disappeared!!
LOL ... yeap if only potatoes were an native food of Ireland during the 800's and not imported from Latin America centuries after the Vikings had long assimilated by then
Manolon, You're wrong...the Vikings brought Llamas from Peru, not potatoes...
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