Public Reseach: Race (Slavs and other Vikings, Varangians, and Sarmatians)

[Lalwendë]

I'd suggest either ask folks to pinpoint the one option which they most closely identify with or allow the option of multiple boxes - and have a link there explaining what each grouping means too. In the UK we are a real mixed bag racially speaking. I for one could go for the first three categories having a mixture of native Briton, Welsh, Irish, Manx and, looking far back, probably Norwegian Viking blood, and like most English people probably a bit of Saxon too, maybe even some Norman (that's only if one of my ancestors got lucky and married someone posh ). I suppose it depends how far back you want to go, if we all went really far back we'd all be the same wouldn't we?

I'm confusing things as ever....

[JennyHallu]

Oh drat, forgot Norman. Sorry Lalwende, we were posh. Some of us, anyway. Castles and knighthood and schtuff. Wish we were posh now.

[HerenIstarion]

I suppose it depends how far back you want to go, if we all went really far back we'd all be the same wouldn't we

M-mm... some Australopithecuses present, you think?

To be serious, though, I will surely allow for multiple choices (even if only for myself, having German grand granny and Ukrainian grandfather on mother's side). I have forgotten about Caucasus (in geographical sense, that is) here, though. I suppose the altered entry for Mediterranean will look like Greek-Roman-Arabic-Caucasus

[Formendacil]

Those options look fairly comprehensive... but I'm looking for Germanic-Celtic, which is probably CLOSEST to the truth (for me). Otherwise, I'd probably pick Roman-Germanic...

[Alcarillo]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

Those options look fairly comprehensive... but I'm looking for Germanic-Celtic, which is probably CLOSEST to the truth (for me). Otherwise, I'd probably pick Roman-Germanic...

I too would like a Germanic-Celtic option. Roman-Germanic is a bit of a stretch when it comes to my ancestry.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I am back with my usual: You are all decendance of the vikings !

I would like to point out that it will most likely be Irish people who decend from Norwegian Vikings as this was their main recidens on the British Isles (and the Isle of Man). The Vikings in England was mainly frome Denmark, of course there must have been a great deal of Norwegians as well, but mainly danish.

Normaly it is devided like this:

Norwegian: Iceland, Greenland and Vinland
Danish: England and France
Swedish: Russia (east europe) and Byzantium
(very generalised)

With that said I will move on to the real reason I am posting

I just find it odd to make a big deal out of Normans as they are direct decendance of the Vikings. There is not a lot of generations between those vikings who was given Normandy and the Normans who invated England. They settled in 911 under the leadership of Hrolf Ganger and in 1066 they invaded England under the leadership of Willam II. Of course they have been mixed with the french, but come on.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

I am back with my usual: You are all decendance of the vikings !

I would like to point out that it will most likely be Irish people who decend from Norwegian Vikings as this was their main recidens on the British Isles (and the Isle of Man). The Vikings in England was mainly frome Denmark, of course there must have been a great deal of Norwegians as well, but mainly danish.

The Norwegian Vikings of Dublin were expelled and they then went on to settle on the Lancashire coast, which at that time must have been an incredibly desolate place (it still is, if you mistakenly take a holiday at Pontins... ), marshy and low-lying. It was also close to the main route through to York, the Ribble, where some of the Vikings stashed their treasure, The Cuerdale Hoard. Irish Norwegians.