The only thing I remember about William, that his wife (poor thing) barely escaped being a dwarf. I think she stood about 4'7". Pretty short people in those days, but that height is silly. William was pretty much Scandanavian.
I'm sure you're pretty much a mixture of all those things. I think I told you my boss (her name is Barnard) that the Celts were all German (Northern Europe). Also Dublin is not an Irish name, but Sandanavian. So everythig in the British Isles (including Ireland) and a mixture of everything and everyone. To be safe, everyone there is German.
By the way.. 1066 and all that is the title of a hilarious retelling of British history by Richard Armour. It's from the 1940's, but it's still in print and very funny.
The Viking link is via Dupuytren's disease - her granddad was invalided out of the army just before D-Day with it - and her (Welsh) family is from originally Fishguard (fiskigarðr in old norse) before moving to Swansea and Cardiff in the mid 1800s. Would be good to test it properly though.
We are the bow stringers, so no fancy Norman knights in our line. I'll doff my cap next time we meet, eh?
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I'm sure you're pretty much a mixture of all those things. I think I told you my boss (her name is Barnard) that the Celts were all German (Northern Europe). Also Dublin is not an Irish name, but Sandanavian. So everythig in the British Isles (including Ireland) and a mixture of everything and everyone. To be safe, everyone there is German.
By the way.. 1066 and all that is the title of a hilarious retelling of British history by Richard Armour. It's from the 1940's, but it's still in print and very funny.
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I know the Chandlers were Normans - "Le Chaundeler" was born in 1195 - that's as far back as we can trace. Stinking carpetbaggers....
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We are the bow stringers, so no fancy Norman knights in our line. I'll doff my cap next time we meet, eh?
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