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        • pooh [she/her, any]
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          627 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
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            527 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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              427 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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                226 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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            427 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.