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Almost the entirety of my English ancestry comes from within the Danelaw. Six of my great grandparents had blonde, red, or light brown hair and blue eyes. What does my Y-Chromosome tell me? If I was any more native I'd be Neanderthal. My mother's mtDNA? Far side of the continent. Amongst Europeans, appearance is a no guarantee of genetics.
How Norse were the Normans? It always struck me that in late 1066, England was being invaded by two Viking armies but were the Normans more Romance or Norse? Did they bring any Norse linguistics or culture into English society not already introduced by the Danes?
How Norse were the Normans? It always struck me that in late 1066, England was being invaded by two Viking armies but were the Normans more Romance or Norse? Did they bring any Norse linguistics or culture into English society not already introduced by the Danes?
They maintained a definite connection to the North, and were culturally still seen as a people apart from France. Although the French language had definitely come to be their tongue as well. Their Catholicism is not really worth mentioning, by that point pretty much everyone in Western Europe was Catholic.