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Re: Pretanike-Britain, Breton, Prythain or Picti?
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> Also, the Orkneys were the vital stop off point on all travels west for the Vikings and I cannot
> believe that they would have asked permission from the indigenous population to allow them to
> use the islands on a kind of 'lease back' scenario.
>
> But there is a vociferous school of thought that argues the opposite, that the Orcadians and the
> Vikings coexisted in a mutually beneficial community.

well there are reports of Picts and Scandinavians working together to harry the Romans (and later the Anglo-Saxons) on raids into England, so i still have to go with the possibility of a friendly and gradual adoption of Viking culture

> I would guess that the distinctive Orkney accent should be attributed to the Norse influence more > than any thing else.

that's probably true, I was just thinking out loud really

Cheers
Andy S


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3rd May 2005ce
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