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On 11/15/13 5:07 PM, John Cowan wrote: That did even worse, and the Danes for some reason never got it back. I meant the end of the Viking settlements in the 15th century. I think the 12% are likely folks from the more recent Danish return.On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@s... <mailto:simonstl@s...>> wrote: Right. The Vikings wandered into Greenland, try to do what they always did, and are sad when things don't work out. Eh? Their descendants are still 12% of the population. Did you mean Vinland? (Counting Viking descendants is silly - my mother turns out to be ~40% Scandinavian, despite being mostly from Waterford, Ireland. Of course that's a corruption of Water-fjord. Viking descendants are pretty much anywhere within range of the North Sea or even Mediterranean.) Thanks, -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/
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