I wished there were Russians there, but that school only had Dutch people, British and Irish people, and two Americans. In any case, I was pretty friendless that year, and only saw some resolution the next year, when a half-Indonesian Boy, who was a little older than me (repeat-year), decided to befriend me and stood off the bullies. And he had big fists, for a skinny chap - he remained my friend for some years.
Re: Slav vs. Viking, the largest DNA study to date (I know that is sensitive subject) shows large swathes (down the rivers) of Viking settlement in Rus-land in the tenth Century. https://www.medievalists.net/2020/09/viking-genetics/
Mind you the same is said about Slavs, re: timing.
So the Viking DNA does not exclude Slav ancestry, though - because peoples merge over time, and the tenth century might have been a movement of lots of people. And I can totally relate to the Slav analysis - indeed, my dad, my brother, and my sons look like Darker Slavs (my dad), (as well as some of them are blonde Vikings), depending.
When one of my (blonde) sons worked as an extra in a WW1 movie, they cast him as a Both Brit (Solid Saxon looking) AND a German (Just more high cheek-bones - and by accentuating a (childhood) scar on his face. LOLOL.)
I wished there were Russians there, but that school only had Dutch people, British people, and two Americans. In any case, I was pretty friendless that year, and only saw some resolution the next year, when a half-Indonesian Boy, who was a little older than me (repeat-year), decided to befriend me and stood off the bullies. And he had big fists, for a skinny chap.
Re: Slav vs. Viking, the largest DNA study to date (I know that is sensitive subject) shows large swathes (down the rivers) of Viking settlement in Rus-land in the tenth Century. https://www.medievalists.net/2020/09/viking-genetics/
Mind you the same is said about Slavs.
So the Viking DNA does not exclude Slav ancestry, though - because peoples merge over time, and the tenth century might have been a movement of lots of people. And I can totally relate to the Slav analysis - indeed, my brother, and my sons look like Slavs, (as well as Vikings), depending.
When one of my sons worked as an extra in a WW1 movie, they cast him as a Both Brit (Solid Blonde Saxon looking) AND a German (Just more high cheek-bones - and by accentuating a (childhood) scar on his face. LOLOL.)
Well, the largest DNA study to date (I know that is sensitive subject) shows large swathes (down the rivers) of Viking settlement in Rus-land in the tenth Century. https://www.medievalists.net/2020/09/viking-genetics/
Mind you the same is said about Slavs.
So the Viking DNA does not exclude Slav ancestry, though - because peoples merge over time, and the tenth century might have been a movement of lots of people. And I can totally relate to the Slav analysis - indeed, my brother, and my sons look like Slavs, (as well as Vikings), depending.
When one of my sons worked as an extra in a WW1 movie, they cast him as a Both Brit (Solid Blonde Saxon looking) AND a German (Just more high cheek-bones - and by accentuating a (childhood) scar on his face. LOLOL.)