Re: Vikings
MICHAEL WALTERS (mwalters@bradtech.com)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:19:27 -0500
Hi Eoghan
Speaking as an English man with Irish, Welsh, Scottish AND Cornish blood,
which is really confusing at times, perhaps if the combined Vikings/Irish
had not kept raiding the Bristol shipping, the later invaders might not have
arrived
YISS
Mike Walters
-----Original Message-----
From: Eoghan Lavelle <efl@indigo.ie>
To: seascout-net@mail.sea.scouter.com <seascout-net@mail.sea.scouter.com>
Date: January 27, 1999 19:48
Subject: Re: Vikings
>Hi Roger and John
>Thanks for your comments!
>
>To the Birdseye Frozen Viking
>I never cease to be amazed at little coincidences. You mention Yorkshire
>and Danelaw. Dublin as a Norse state played a large part in the affairs of
>the Vikings in England in the tenth century because its rulers had strong
>dynastic interests in York. Perhaps one of your Viking ancestors may have
>been related to an early King of Dublin!
>
>To the Swamp Viking
>I thought that comment would produce a reaction from someone!
>Actually, after the first century of rape and pillage, the Vikings and
>Irish settled down quite well together. On balance, I think that we had
>rather more trouble with later invaders!
>
>Yours in Sea Scouting
>
>Eoghan Lavelle
>
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