
Vikings and Franks
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The Rise of the Normandy in the Nineteenth Century
The rise of normandy as this scandinavian controlled political region is a bit of a blind spot evidence wisea. A lot of the established narrative that we take for granted about normanys is on quite shaky ground. The identity of being vikings would have gradually weakened, i think, through assimilation, through intermarriage, through cohabitation. So just, you know, a few generations later, how scand Scandinavian these thesthes rulers and these people still were.
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