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Title: Vikings were 'model immigrants who lived happily alongside Ancient Britons'
Source: Daily Mail
URL Source: [None]
Published: Mar 13, 2009
Author: Niall Firth
Post Date: 2009-03-13 18:28:50 by Prefrontal Vortex
Keywords: None
Views: 213
Comments: 3

Vikings were 'model immigrants who lived happily alongside Ancient Britons'

By Niall Firth
Last updated at 1:42 PM on 13th March 2009

For more than a thousand years they have had a reputation for raping, pillaging and engaging in violent conquests.

But new research suggests that this violent image of the Vikings may be a little unfair.

In fact, some academics claim that the Norsemen were 'model immigrants' who lived side-by-side in relative harmony with the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic locals.

In 793 the Vikings launched their first brutal raid on England, hacking monks to death and terrifying villagers at a priory in Lindisfarne.

But they soon became an 'integral part of the fabric of social and political life', according to academics at Cambridge University.

Dr Fiona Edmonds said: 'The latest evidence does not point to a simple opposition between 'Vikings' and 'natives'.

'Within a relatively short space of time - and with lasting effect - the various cultures in Britain and Ireland started to intermingle.'

Researchers say the Vikings should been seen as an early example of immigrants who were successfully assimilated into British and Irish culture.

A combination of new archaeological evidence and analysis of the language, literature and coinage of the period was used to come to this surprising new conclusion.

The findings appear to fly in the face of accepted theories about the Vikings and their barbarous ways.

But researchers are insistent that this is more than just an attempt to manipulate history to fit modern-day political correct attitudes.

Dr Maire Ni Mhaonaigh, who is co-organising the three-day conference in Cambridge on the subject, genuinely believes modern-day Britons today can learn from such positive immigration.

She said: 'Most people's image of the Vikings centres on their arrival and disruption but that only continued for a very short period of time.

'Afterwards they started building settlements and interacting with the locals and became assimilated into their culture and influenced them in many ways.

'As such they provide a clear example of how a particular group came into a sophisticated established society and the resulting interaction was positive.

'Both societies profited and modern day people can take a lesson from this that two cultures coming together can learn from each other.'

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#1. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)

She said: 'Most people's image of the Vikings centres on their arrival and disruption but that only continued for a very short period of time.

This makes sense.

Pillage and destruction are a one time novelty. Sustainable succor requires co- oporation.

This is where racist class stratification comes in to play.

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tom007  posted on  2009-03-13   20:35:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)

Dr Maire Ni Mhaonaigh, who is co-organising the three-day conference in Cambridge on the subject, genuinely believes modern-day Britons today can learn from such positive immigration.

'Both societies profited and modern day people can take a lesson from this that two cultures coming together can learn from each other.'

It's such timely research...

"Britain benefits so much from the wonders of diversity that official police figures have shown that there has been a 120 percent rise in the number of non- Britons arrested, charged or convicted of offences between 2003 and 2008.

The statistics, released by 20 forces in England and Wales, show that foreigners committed or were accused of more than 70,000 offences in 2008 alone."

Source: http://bnp.org.uk/2009/03/how-diversity-%e2%80%9cbenefits%e2%80%9d- britain-police-figures-confirm-120-rise-in-foreigner-crime/

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X-15  posted on  2009-03-13   20:38:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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Vikings weren't Africans or Mexicans.

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Turtle  posted on  2009-03-13   21:46:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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