The Normans
Dan Snow's History Hit
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How Many Vikings Were There?
How important is that viking heritage? Is there some kind of remembered lineage seafaring, buccaneering? Because that we see, thereis a gap. I mean, they settle and become quite un quite french. They swap their long ships for horses. They become great cavalrymen. Does their vikings three forward, five generations back? Does that matter? Well, it does matter in the sense that we are the conquerors. So their antecedents, they start off just in that way. But one of the big questions is, how many vikings were there? It's a bit like the anglo saxons. How many anglo Saxons were and
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