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Exultant Democracy

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16. I assume their women were treated at best like the Irish women stolen by the Norwegian men

Reply to ohheckyeah (Reply #15)

Sat Jan 26, 2013, 04:36 PM

Jan 2013

Last edited Sat Jan 26, 2013, 06:31 PM - Edit history (1)

when they settled Iceland. The mitochondrial DNA we have in Iceland indicated that virtually no Norwegian women were willing to relocate to Iceland. So the men would stop off at Ireland on their way to Iceland to kidnap a lot of rape/slaves.

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