Boys arrested over vicious attack
I blame Viking genes, seriously, as most settled in Yorkshire and Lancashire under the Danelaw
Thousands of years struggling and competing for small tracts of viable land in all those steep-sided Norwegian fiords must have been what gave the Vikings (and their descendents the Normans) a mean streak as well as an obsession with land and property ownership which we British share to this day.
Strange that the Scandinavians don't seem that cruel or grasping these days, as their forebears were. Or if they are one doesn't hear about it.
(and if the above sounds Northist or Racist or something, I don't give a flip. Apart from anything else my ancestors are mostly from Lancashire and via the Kay-Shuttleworth family we're descended from Bill Conk)
I blame Viking genes, seriously, as most settled in Yorkshire and Lancashire under the Danelaw
Thousands of years struggling and competing for small tracts of viable land in all those steep-sided Norwegian fiords must have been what gave the Vikings (and their descendents the Normans) a mean streak as well as an obsession with land and property ownership which we British share to this day.
Strange that the Scandinavians don't seem that cruel or grasping these days, as their forebears were. Or if they are one doesn't hear about it.
(and if the above sounds Northist or Racist or something, I don't give a flip. Apart from anything else my ancestors are mostly from Lancashire and via the Kay-Shuttleworth family we're descended from Bill Conk)
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