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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Wasn't Scotland in fact colonized by Norse before England took control of the Ilses?
I have never been to Scotland, so I don't know if that plays into their national psyche at all, but it doesn't look out of place.
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Originally Posted by rubecube
Part of it was for sure. The king of Denmark ended up having to give Shetland and some other territories away to the English when he couldn't pay his daughter's wedding dowry.
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Under the Viking king Canute, England was a Norse territory while at the same time Scotland, Wales and Ireland were not. At other times, the reverse was true to varying degrees although I'm not sure the Vikings ever had such a hold on mainland Scotland as they did on England.