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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, well not even French Normans believed that.

In exchange for land and a title, they converted as a formality and where indistinguishable from the rest of French nobility in a generation or two. Basically an afterthought.

Contrary to popular depictions, vikings were generally pragmatic people.