> there has been very little dilution of his Norse blood Hmm. VERY doubtful unless his family has 1000 years of inbreeding. Much more likely to be yet another

> there has been very little dilution of his Norse blood Hmm. VERY doubtful unless his family has 1000 years of inbreeding. Much more likely to be yet another crap ethnic ancestry test or fiction. Claiming Viking heritage is kind of a common British thing especially if you are blonde. It's the sort of thing you are told as a kid and becomes part of your identity despite genetic studies showing very little remaining trace in the population as a whole. Where was he from? The best chance would be if he came from Orkney but I don't think anyone is actually pure Norse after multiple waves of immigration after the original Norse settlement. If he comes from England then I'd say it's definitely a bogus claim. There are even genetic studies that the Viking settlers themselves were not genetically pure Norse making such blood purity claims even more doubtful.