• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    I just yell at them in a bizarre mix of English, Latin, and random archaic Germanic words. I’ve been told I sound like a Icelander with issues when I do that.

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        9 hours ago

        No I’m of Scots, Irish, English, Norwegian, and High German descent. Sure I may share some common ancestoral kinship with some Icelanders but that’s going back a thousand years minimum.

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          9 hours ago

          Disclaimer: drinking alone in Reykjavik at the moment

          You might be surprised! There is a non-trivial amount of Scottish ancestry in Iceland. When Iceland was being settled by the Norse, they stopped off adding the way in Shetland, Orkney, and Caithness to gather supplies and… Well… Slaves. But there is a lot of cross over between the two areas. I suppose it depends on where in Scotland your ancestry lies.

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            9 hours ago

            I’m a Stewart and my ancestors were primarily focused on merchantry before and after leaving Scotland for New Hampshire so… Highland and lowland I guess. It becomes real fucking blurry outside of our oral history that our cadet branch was created by one of the Stewart Kings for merchantry specifically to prevent a stupid succession squabble. Beyond that fuck if I know.