Two disturbing and forgotten bits of english History they dont now teach

[UKSmartypants]

The Norwegians and Danes did conquer England in 1013 remember Sweyn I the father of Canute The Great who ruled over the Great Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms that included parts of Sweden. I think his reign in England was shortlived though. England has some very interesting History.

ON a side note, Canute, or C'nut declared his capital at Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, which sits on a tidal section of the River Trent, giving him access to the sea by boat. Gainsborough today itself is a small run down backwater market town, which enjoyed a brief burst of prosperity after WW2. The section of the Trent it sits on is tidal, and its thought this is where Canute tried to turn the tide back.

[Moonie]

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At least my English surname translates into both German and Swedish.
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[UKSmartypants]

Some believe the Norwegian king Harold Hardrade played an inadvertent role in history in allowing William the Conqueror to take England.
(William was a "Norman", also the partial ancestors of Norwegian raiders who had come to live for a few generations in northern France)
It also seems that Anjou (in France) was powerful.

The Angevinians were a branch of the french Nobility, the Merovingians, and gave rise to the Normans and Willaim I. The Merovingians were founded as far we can trace by Dagobert I in around 660 AD. One of my ancestors was a compatriot of William, and almost certainly Frankish Nobility, which makes me a Merovingian too