“Animals die, friends die, and I shall die. One thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.”, and, as it happens, they were bang on the money.
“So, for example the son of Ivar would be given their own first name and then in addition ‘Ivar’s son’. A daughter would be Ivar’s daughter. She added: “People of the Viking Age would often have a descriptive nickname, for example two of the Earls of Orkney who were known as Sigurd the Stout and Thorfill Skullsplitter.”A spokesman for HISTORY added that, after surveying 2,000 people, they discovered that a whopping 56% of those polled really, really wanted to discover that they had Viking heritage.
I know my Viking roots. Guthrum[b] (Old English: Guðrum, c. 835 – c. 890) was King of East Anglia. He was one of the leaders of the 'Great Summer Army' that arrived in Reading during April 871, to join forces with the Great Danish Army.
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