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Am I Of Viking Descent. Scandanavian doesnt necessarily mean Viking. Being in the UK makes you a good candidate for being a descendant from an actual Viking or two. Maybe youre descended from vikings. Thousands of us could be descendants of Vikings especially if your surname ends in son according to experts.
Am I a Viking An answer we could give is. That If is of course incorrect - people with red hair are not exclusively descendants from Vikings - thats something only children believe. For many the Viking Age in England began in earnest in June of 793 when Vikings destroyed the abbey on Lindisfarne on an island off the northeastern coast. Vikings in the UK and Ireland. Youre not a Viking. The Viking Age began more than a thousand years ago and in those two centuries the warlike Norsemen from Scandinavia went on numerous raids above all in northern Europe.
Perhaps you have a little the tiniest bit of viking in you.
This test is not based on any scientific study whatsoever. The devastation of the holy island was reported by an Anglo-Saxon scholar Alcuin of York who wrote Never before in Britain has such a terror appeared. Thousands of us could be descendants of Vikings especially if your surname ends in son according to experts. The British Museums new blockbuster exhibition explores their history and research suggests almost a million Britons alive today are of Viking descent but just how much of a Viking. An lucht siúil meaning the walking people also known as Pavees or Mincéirs Shelta. Vikings in the UK and Ireland.