| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers 20:33 - Jul 25 with 1240 views | BrianTablet |
I'll start.
Leif Erikson Davis |  |
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 20:53 - Jul 25 with 1196 views | Keno |
Eric the Red Gates |  |
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 20:54 - Jul 25 with 1194 views | XYZ |
Pingu Counago |  | | |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 21:12 - Jul 25 with 1174 views | BarcaBlue |
Ipswich the Bonneless |  | | |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 21:40 - Jul 25 with 1144 views | Keno |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 21:12 - Jul 25 by BarcaBlue |
Ipswich the Bonneless |
Not a Town player but there was
C nut the Great Aka Grant Holt | |
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 21:45 - Jul 25 with 1131 views | WeWereZombies |
Hermann 'Olav' Haraldeiðarsson |  |
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 21:53 - Jul 25 with 1115 views | BarcaBlue |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 21:40 - Jul 25 by Keno |
Not a Town player but there was
C nut the Great Aka Grant Holt |
...who wasn't a Town player either but anyway I had to check on Wikipedia he was 11th century and discovered Canute's successor was Harthac nut. A C nut but not nearly as good. | | | |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 21:59 - Jul 25 with 1094 views | BigCommon |
Ja Naddodd Donacian.. .. Ok, couple of hundred years early on this one.. But who's splitting hairs? |  | | |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 08:42 - Jul 26 with 998 views | DJR |
Alan the Stout Brazil |  | | |
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 09:18 - Jul 26 with 974 views | hoppy |
Nicky 'Sweyn' Forksterbeard |  |
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 09:45 - Jul 26 with 950 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
Njalan Hunter
Graham HarbEyjolf Bolverksson
Flosimon Milton
Karichard Naylor
Christiunn Walton
Richard Hallgerd
Mord Valgardssone Aluko
OK, I'm kind of cheating. My wife studied Njal's Saga at University, so I knew what to Google! It's a 13th Century account of an 11th Century Icelandic Feud. All of the Icelanders in the 11th Century were Norse and either explorers from Scandinavia or their descendants.
There are more protagonists, as yet untapped for tenuous similarity to Town players' names, named here:
https://famous-trials.com/medievaltrials/2331-ninjaltrial
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 12:11 - Jul 26 with 912 views | DJR |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 09:45 - Jul 26 by ArnoldMoorhen |
Njalan Hunter
Graham HarbEyjolf Bolverksson
Flosimon Milton
Karichard Naylor
Christiunn Walton
Richard Hallgerd
Mord Valgardssone Aluko
OK, I'm kind of cheating. My wife studied Njal's Saga at University, so I knew what to Google! It's a 13th Century account of an 11th Century Icelandic Feud. All of the Icelanders in the 11th Century were Norse and either explorers from Scandinavia or their descendants.
There are more protagonists, as yet untapped for tenuous similarity to Town players' names, named here:
https://famous-trials.com/medievaltrials/2331-ninjaltrial
[Post edited 26 Jul 2022 10:04]
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That's very interesting. Actually genetic evidence suggests that approximately 62% of the Icelandic maternal gene pool is derived from Irish and Scottish Gaels, while 37% is of Nordic origin. About 20-25% of the Icelandic paternal gene pool is of Gaelic origin, with the rest being Nordic. At the same time, a sizeable proportion of the genetic gene pool in Shetland and Orkney is Nordic. All of this is a result of the movements from the 9th century onwards between the Nordic lands, Dublin, the Isle of Man, the Western Isles, Shetland and Orkney. I have an interest in this area because my grandmother hailed from the most northerly inhabited isle in the UK, namely, Unst in the Shetland Isles. A version of Norse, Norn, existed in the Shetlands until the 19th century. In addition, tracing my ancestors there shows evidence of the Norse naming system, which still exists today in Iceland, and which continued in the Shetlands until the 19th century (eg. one of my ancestors is called Grizel Mansdaughter). Finally, I came up with Alan the Stout Brazil from another of the Icelandic sagas, the Orkney Saga, which deals with Shetland and Orkney, and which contains a character called Sigurd the Stout. [Post edited 26 Jul 2022 12:13]
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 14:52 - Jul 26 with 850 views | WeWereZombies |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 12:11 - Jul 26 by DJR |
That's very interesting. Actually genetic evidence suggests that approximately 62% of the Icelandic maternal gene pool is derived from Irish and Scottish Gaels, while 37% is of Nordic origin. About 20-25% of the Icelandic paternal gene pool is of Gaelic origin, with the rest being Nordic. At the same time, a sizeable proportion of the genetic gene pool in Shetland and Orkney is Nordic. All of this is a result of the movements from the 9th century onwards between the Nordic lands, Dublin, the Isle of Man, the Western Isles, Shetland and Orkney. I have an interest in this area because my grandmother hailed from the most northerly inhabited isle in the UK, namely, Unst in the Shetland Isles. A version of Norse, Norn, existed in the Shetlands until the 19th century. In addition, tracing my ancestors there shows evidence of the Norse naming system, which still exists today in Iceland, and which continued in the Shetlands until the 19th century (eg. one of my ancestors is called Grizel Mansdaughter). Finally, I came up with Alan the Stout Brazil from another of the Icelandic sagas, the Orkney Saga, which deals with Shetland and Orkney, and which contains a character called Sigurd the Stout. [Post edited 26 Jul 2022 12:13]
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There is an information board in the CalMac terminal at Ullapool that asserts that all Icelandic women in the time period we are talking about were in fact Gaels due to the fiendish Northlanders bloodthirsty raiding parties which also saw all the local women of the Highlands and Islands carried off in the longships. I think they may have embellished the truth a little bit (and I have embellished it a whole lot more.) | |
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 14:56 - Jul 26 with 837 views | GlasgowBlue |
Not a player. But Phil a ham = Balder the Brave. |  |
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 16:27 - Jul 26 with 806 views | DJR |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 14:52 - Jul 26 by WeWereZombies |
There is an information board in the CalMac terminal at Ullapool that asserts that all Icelandic women in the time period we are talking about were in fact Gaels due to the fiendish Northlanders bloodthirsty raiding parties which also saw all the local women of the Highlands and Islands carried off in the longships. I think they may have embellished the truth a little bit (and I have embellished it a whole lot more.) |
Yes, I rather suspected that from the figures, and think I have read this before. | | | |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 16:35 - Jul 26 with 800 views | Vic |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 14:56 - Jul 26 by GlasgowBlue |
Not a player. But Phil a ham = Balder the Brave. |
Ah yes, Balder, the scribe and keeper of the scrolls. There is a myth that he had an underling called Gavlar the less who often went on raiding party’s at about 11.00pm. |  |
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 16:47 - Jul 26 with 788 views | jontysnut |
Noggin the Chris Hogg |  | | |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 17:08 - Jul 26 with 778 views | Keno |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 16:47 - Jul 26 by jontysnut |
Noggin the Chris Hogg |
Eskimo Dozzell | |
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| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 23:12 - Jul 26 with 725 views | WeWereZombies |
| Town players as 11th century Norse explorers on 17:08 - Jul 26 by Keno |
Eskimo Dozzell |
But you ain't see nothing like Alan the mighty Quinn | |
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