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> Nordic descent but they had given up the Viking way So they were indeed Vikings as a matter of heredity?
by kleton 7mo ago
> Nordic descent but they had given up the Viking way
So they were indeed Vikings as a matter of heredity?
- philwelch 7mo ago“Viking” isn’t a matter of heredity though. If your grandfather was a bricklayer, you’re not a bricklayer as a matter of heredity, you have to actually lay bricks. Likewise, if your grandfather was a viking, you have to actually go raiding and pillaging to be one yourself. Which is not something you’re likely to do if the king of France gave your grandfather an entire duchy in exchange for a promise to stop doing that sort of thing.