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finti
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Besides Scotland and Wales they settled in Ireland, The isle of Man, Hebrides, Shetland, Orkney
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Jan 18th, 2005 07:32 AM |
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big gay kirk
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even nowadays the Shets feel closer kinship with Norway than with the UK... a good deal of them have Norwegian names, and their dialect contains a lot of Norse words...
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Jan 18th, 2005 10:48 PM |
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finti
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well they are direct descendants of the Norse that settled there so that they want to cling to a part of their own history is very understandable
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Jan 19th, 2005 07:24 AM |
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big gay kirk
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definitely...
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