How "Viking" is the area where you live?

[Boris Sprinkler]

A little bit.

 

[lizzieloo]

Milton Keynes is nearly all Viking

 

[Opera Buffa]

I live within walking distance of an Ikea.

 

[twentythreedom]

Totally fucking Viking - my boat was built in Scandinavia and is named after a magical dragon ship from Norse mythology

 

[Opera Buffa]

The shop down the road from me is openly selling Daim bars.

 

[Pingu]

its almost as if they landed in Scotland..came inland a bit and went "fuck this"

 

[Chick Webb]

I'm from Limerick. It's a city founded by Vikings. We have a lax weir. I'm convinced I've got some some Viking ancestry, because my dad suffers with dupuytren's contracture, and his hand surgeon told him that the condition can indicate Vikings in the family. Also he is a red haired lunatic, and since I'm a metaller, I want to believe it.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don't think Manchester is Viking at all - maybe they were flummoxed by the Pennines being in the way, so stopped at Yorkshire instead.

most sensible people do.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

most sensible people do.

Only because they're scared of crossing the Pennines.

 

[Boycey]

a finnish bloke lived here once, and a swedish woman stayed for a week. in the grand scheme of things, not very.

 

[dessiato]

Not at all really. Although there are a few Volvos & Saabs around.

Swedish! At least originally.

 

[N_igma]

Not sure about the genetic makeup of the people but in the 9th century the Vikings continually attacked local abbeys and churches here raping and pillaging as they went on.

 

[MrSki]

The Normans (Norsemen) were of Viking heritage. Only spent around 100 years in Normandy before the Bastard came to town.

 

[JimW]

Reminded by a story in the local paper that we do have a hamlet called Woefuldane. Must look up the origins.

 

[A380]

Great Barford, just down the road,is called that as it was the first ford shallow enough to stop the longships raiding up the River Great Ouse. One of the reasons the boarder between East Anglia (Dane law) and the midlands (Mercia) is around here somewhere...

 

[A380]

Mind you: found this in my garden, no idea where it came from:

 

[StoneRoad]

Personally, half Wessex half Yorkshire so some genes possible.
Currently live within stone chuck range of Hadrian's Wall and OH is a Geordie.
So lots of influence locally.

A now ex-workmate is a Viking re-enactor - on one memorable occasion he came back from an event with a hoof print just between/below his shoulder blades. But no memory of being ridden over (he had "copped it" when in the shield wall, he had the middle shield at the time)!


mods - PGB - shields par StoneRoad2013, on Ipernity

 

[JimW]

Looked up that Woefuldane, turns out it and the nearby Daneway have nothing to do with Vikings despite local legends, it's a corruption of ME "dene" meaning valley. The Woeful bit they reckon is a similarly garbled Anglo-Saxon woman's name.