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  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    And neither Romans nor Vikings are around anymore. Coincidence? I think not!

    • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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      5 months ago

      Well, I mean, the modern English are sort of descended from Vikings (Anglo-Saxons). Scots and Irish are still mostly Celtic though (I think) and those places are way cooler, so not sure this argument holds

      • pseudo@jlai.lu
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        5 months ago

        Not an expert but from the name, I would imagine they descend from the Angles (Engles?) and the Saxes not from the Vikings.

        • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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          5 months ago

          Yeah, for some reason I was thinking Angles and Saxons were considered Vikings but I was totally wrong on that. You are correct.

          • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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            5 months ago

            Northeast England and the east coast of Scotland have a fair amount of viking ancestry about from all the raiding, so it's not completely baseless.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Descended from is not the same as being. An Italian American is not an Italian is not a Roman even if you can trace descent.