Nice. Thanks for the tidbit on Viking history. Those Vikings really got around. Lke you said, they reached America and if I remember my Japanese history correctly, *I think* Viking relics were even found there as well.
I'm a bit fuzzy on my Norman history. I visited Ireland recently and many Norman castles are still there (infact friends of ours live in a Norman castle there). I assumed the Norman's were somehow Vikings, or a were they from the area around France? Things got so chaotic in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.
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