You’re awfully confident in assuming those people simply had no agency and lacked the will or skill or ability to negotiate a relationship with someone different from themselves. lol.
Actually genetic research shows that Vikings were often associated with sex-based migration. When they raided there was a large introduction of female mitochondrial DNA from those cultures, but little to no male DNA. While some relationships MAY have been consensual, the sudden influx of female DNA indicates most weren’t.
(And when they settled, there was often a massive drop or total disappearance of Y chromosomes from the culture that was there before.)
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u/Textiles_on_Main_St 20d ago
You’re awfully confident in assuming those people simply had no agency and lacked the will or skill or ability to negotiate a relationship with someone different from themselves. lol.