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  • pooh [she/her, any]
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    25 days 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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      25 days 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, any]
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        24 days 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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          23 days 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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      25 days 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.