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> The authors note that individuals not related to Vikings genetically, such as native Pictish people of Scotland and Ireland, sometimes received traditional Viking burials
so @trekonomics is totally full of crap - the thing he links to defines Vikings in genetic terms https://twitter.com/trekonomics/status/1306391405539983361 …
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2/ This is pedantry to the point of intentionally missing the point. I understand that "viking" is a verb, but our language, English, has a noun "viking" which refers to a particular culture that engaged in viking. That culture was made up of people >https://twitter.com/ee_elephant/status/1306625589722460161 …
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3/ who had kinship ties, and were genetically related. Saying "Vikings didn't exist" is retarded in the same way that saying "Europeans didn't exist, because AKSHUALLY you are talking about Spaniards and Englishmen and Italians and Bulgarians and -" Don't be that guy.
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@ee_elephant : "Vikings didn't exist" oh - you were finished? Well allow me to retort. This is what we English speakers mean when we use the English noun "viking":pic.twitter.com/48r03iNY7l
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they were often just going *hiking* but got carried away.
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