Bortig the Viking
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Thats what I keep telling my wife.Nice job for your first figure.
To my knowledge Vikings took cleanliness quite seriously, I recall a recent paper saying that the Vikings were attractive to women in the British Isles because they were cleaner and smelt better.
I agree Dave, many of the online family trees are fanciful. Unless you're very lucky with parish records it's almost impossible to get much further back than the mid-eighteenth century with any reasonable degree of certainty. Unfortunately there seem to be many people who think the more names on their family tree the better, as well as those who just copy data from online trees without any checks. I discovered this early on my research, when I made a significant mistake, which before I corrected it had been copied into at least 4 other people's trees. I really wish people would check!I did research - and I'm supposedly related to the last pagan king of England & Denmark, Cnut the Great! I find the ancestry websites scarcely believable in parts - I reckon a lot of the early Middle Age people entries are either wishful thinking, or downright fraudulent. I reckon about 1700 is the furthest I can get with any certainty! It can take a lot of time & patience to try and fathom the truths!
Dave
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