Reply With QuoteYeh - Owain Gwynedd smashed 'em, and they never much bothered us.Originally Posted by kudzu
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I have no views on their religion or origins. All I said was they carried off people from the area my father's ancestors lived in! The people, I gather, tended to be sold on to Istanbul: I certainly found some of the locals there much superior to Bristolians!
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The Vikings were also big raiders and slave traders.
I would think most coastal villages were vulnerable to raiders whether they were pirates or Vikings.
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Yeh - Owain Gwynedd smashed 'em, and they never much bothered us.
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Welch prince? I plead ignorance.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
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Yup - though the Dublin Danes probably guided Prince Madoc when he joined the large number of people who allegedly 'discovered' America. The aforementioned Amerig of Bristol had large fishing interests somewhere in the west Atlantic later: if you're on a good thing, why publicise it? Every Friday did them good!
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