"I'm a distant relative of William The Conqueror"!

[MontyVeda]

Aye, but the folklore focuses on the raiders.

I recall being told about the Vikings in junior school (1970s). In retrospect I reckon the teacher's 'research' into the subject was watching The Vikings (1958, starring Kirk Douglas). Every doc I've watched in the last twenty or thirty years about post-Roman, pre-Norman Britain has focused on the traders and settlers more than the raiders. I expect education on the subject has changed also in those decades.

 

[Accy cyclist]

There's a woman down my local pub who's a 'devout catholic'. Some bloke's told her that he's a descendant of some priest who was executed in the times when Henry the Eight was purging Catholicism from England. She views him as some kind of saintly figure. He says he's not religious and doesn't see himself as how she sees him. He must be about 25 generations on from this priest.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

There's a woman down my local pub who's a 'devout catholic'. Some bloke's told her that he's a descendant of some priest who was executed in the times when Henry the Eight was purging Catholicism from England. She views him as some kind of saintly figure. He says he's not religious and doesn't see himself as how she sees him. He must be about 25 generations on from this priest.

Sounds like he's "in" there then

 

[Accy cyclist]

Sounds like he's "in" there then

Yes,he should wear a monks cassock and carry a burning torch,then maybe he might get a shag!!

 

[winjim]

There's a woman down my local pub who's a 'devout catholic'. Some bloke's told her that he's a descendant of some priest who was executed in the times when Henry the Eight was purging Catholicism from England. She views him as some kind of saintly figure. He says he's not religious and doesn't see himself as how she sees him. He must be about 25 generations on from this priest.

Should a catholic priest not have been celibate?

 

[raleighnut]

Aye, but the folklore focuses on the raiders.

View: https://youtu.be/JEZodHd2NZE

 

[Andy in Germany]

There's a woman down my local pub who's a 'devout catholic'. Some bloke's told her that he's a descendant of some priest who was executed in the times when Henry the Eight was purging Catholicism from England. She views him as some kind of saintly figure. He says he's not religious and doesn't see himself as how she sees him. He must be about 25 generations on from this priest.

Er... hang on a minute...

Should a catholic priest not have been celibate?

You beat me to it.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Should a catholic priest not have been celibate?

Do you know, i've never thought about that.

 

[raleighnut]

Should a catholic priest not have been celibate?

Shame more of em aren't.

 

[simon the viking]

Oh good a thread where i can share the 'my wifes related to both Bob Larbey (the good life etc co writer) AND Sally Thomsett' story (again... Thats at least three times on cc)

 

[simon the viking]

To prove my above story here's a photo of Mrs V with her brother and sister on a recent day out on The Keighley and Worth Valley railway

 

[Andy in Germany]

There was a programme on TV last week, possibly an old one, with Dr Alice Roberts, and the scientist bods of some university had done some DNA mapping. The gene pool was fairly limited, and indicated that the accepted "violent invading foreign hoardes" were no more than folklore and the genetic evidence was of mostly peaceful co-existence. There were geographic genetic differences, with Wales, Cornwall, being quite distinct to Central England, and a lot of commonality between Ireland, Scotland and Northumberland.

If that's the case it seems the UK has been a bit funny about furriners for a very long time...

Aye, but the folklore focuses on the raiders.

Then as now.

 

[Accy cyclist]

To prove my above story here's a photo of Mrs V with her brother and sister on a recent day out on The Keighley and Worth Valley railway

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Going off your username,am i right in guessing you're descended from one of these?

 

[simon the viking]

Going off your username,am i right in guessing you're descended from one of these?

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Of course.... Tony Curtis...

Off topic... How were both of Tony Curtis' arms the same length after they cut his hand off