many vikings became christian

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Besides Scotland and Wales they settled in Ireland, The isle of Man, Hebrides, Shetland, Orkney

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...

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

definitely...