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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7751559, member: 110504&quot;][Edit: I started this before [USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER]&#039;s latest reply; then my keyboard went through one of its scheduled electro-neural episodes, and I had to restart the machine.]</p><p>The way I interpreted @JayAg&#039;s question --and what I thought made it as interesting as it was-- ran to asking whether, on an ethnic level, the Vikings&#039; ancestors were in Scandinavia (or elsewhere, presumably not far) early enough to be known to the ancient Romans.</p><p>...In a sense, pretty much everyone here is right.&nbsp; Regarding the semantics, I wish people would just lighten up a little.&nbsp; Particularly along the lines of ethnic labels, I always have to think of how Shakespeare spelled his own name three different ways.&nbsp; More a metaphor than an exact parallel, but resonant as such.&nbsp; ...Then you get the American censi, in which people of multiple origin were labelled &#039;Negro&#039; or &#039;Mulatto&#039; depending on which decade it was.&nbsp; [Edit:] ...When the census taker didn&#039;t give up (as in the Midwest in the 1850&#039;s) and forego checking a box.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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