12-07-2018, 11:59 PM
A big chunk of the town names in northeastern England (and Saxony) are Scandinavian.
The Angles were southern Danes (Danish names, Danish kings).
In Ireland, Dublin (which so many think of as the quintessential Irish town) was founded and ruled for the first couple of centuries by Vikings.
In Scotland, a big chunk clans are of Norwegian origin.
The Old English language is full of Norse words and bits of Norse grammar. French dominion changed the character of the language (a huge proportion of English words are French and the courts apparently operated in French for a long time).
Many of the battles between the "English" and the Scandinavians were actually battles between earlier waves of Scandinavians and later ones.
The Celts were on the Iberian peninsula and in Central Germany before they settled in the islands.
There was a Danish colony near Friesland until a couple of hundred years ago and also Scandinavian communes in the alps.
The battle banner of the Longobards (southern Scandinavians) was the Danish flag.
I've always thought of the Picts as being indigenous but there is at least one historic historian who wrote that when the Picts migrated to the northeast, they asked if they could settle there and the "local people" (not named in the account that I read) said, no, you can't live here, but if you ally with us against the so-and-so tribe, then you can live over there.
Absolutely none of the above was taught to us in school.
I also didn't know the Burgundians were Scandinavian (I assumed Frankish or Gallish).
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So I thought what the heck? and looked up a chart of Scandinavian migration when I was trying to figure out the herbal manuscript connections between Naples/Salerno and Lombardy, and discovered Scandinavians had colonized almost every corner of Europe and eastern Russia at one time or another, all the way into northern Africa and Greece, and eventually also in India. Wave after wave of Scandinavians moving south.
I began to wonder why these south-moving waves happened so frequently and decided it must be the long cold winters, all those Scandihoovians snuggling up together, creating vast numbers of babies who then went in search of warmer lands and their own identity.
The Angles were southern Danes (Danish names, Danish kings).
In Ireland, Dublin (which so many think of as the quintessential Irish town) was founded and ruled for the first couple of centuries by Vikings.
In Scotland, a big chunk clans are of Norwegian origin.
The Old English language is full of Norse words and bits of Norse grammar. French dominion changed the character of the language (a huge proportion of English words are French and the courts apparently operated in French for a long time).
Many of the battles between the "English" and the Scandinavians were actually battles between earlier waves of Scandinavians and later ones.
The Celts were on the Iberian peninsula and in Central Germany before they settled in the islands.
There was a Danish colony near Friesland until a couple of hundred years ago and also Scandinavian communes in the alps.
The battle banner of the Longobards (southern Scandinavians) was the Danish flag.
I've always thought of the Picts as being indigenous but there is at least one historic historian who wrote that when the Picts migrated to the northeast, they asked if they could settle there and the "local people" (not named in the account that I read) said, no, you can't live here, but if you ally with us against the so-and-so tribe, then you can live over there.
Absolutely none of the above was taught to us in school.
I also didn't know the Burgundians were Scandinavian (I assumed Frankish or Gallish).
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So I thought what the heck? and looked up a chart of Scandinavian migration when I was trying to figure out the herbal manuscript connections between Naples/Salerno and Lombardy, and discovered Scandinavians had colonized almost every corner of Europe and eastern Russia at one time or another, all the way into northern Africa and Greece, and eventually also in India. Wave after wave of Scandinavians moving south.
I began to wonder why these south-moving waves happened so frequently and decided it must be the long cold winters, all those Scandihoovians snuggling up together, creating vast numbers of babies who then went in search of warmer lands and their own identity.