So would I, but mainly because I tried Golf and was completely crap at it. I was invited along to one event and eventually sloped off to the bar. One golf nut asked me if I play. I tried to humour him by saying that I gave it a try. He asked me what my handicap was, so I told him it was a complete inability to hit the fucking ball.
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Oh genetically itās all pretty much the same people fighting each other, I know that. Go back far enough even more so.
My expertise is post 1800s though so Iām a bit useless on this kind of stuff. Basically when some fat German kings came over to the UK. Thats where I start. Anyhow with a surname Hurst āweā won thatās all I need to know 
No, culturally they were not Danes. You can use your etnic card as much as you want (though a weak card it is in 1066), but as an actual fellow historian, I do not accept that you call Norwegians anno 1066 for Danes and they are even less Danes now 
Danes ālostā 1066 ok then.
They also rowed across, my point is itās all bullshit as I have all 3 blood lineage in my family line and anyone from north England probably does due to Dane Law and the recent knowledge that populations did actually mingle.
Anyhow swung back to Norway just now as I saw some English āpatriotsā abusing some imaginary Norwegians.
Danes were generally not involved in the battles of 1066, apart from those who fought with the Anglo-Saxon host.
The word āDaneā, does not refer to northmen or those with a viking occupation, but specifically refers to the ethnic group Danes back then and the Danish today. You cannot as a historian write Dane for Northmen. Sorry, but I really am that asinine when it comes to history if i am talking to someone who āshould know betterā.
How are you?
I am fine. And you? Hopefully, you are too fine.
Today, i do support Norway against the team from the island.
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Kane plays football and is one hell of a striker. Thatās all that counts, surely?
The thing I donāt like about him is when he decides to be a defender or defensive midfielder. Reminds me of Rooney too much.
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Can we use the word Dane if weāre talking to @Dane or do you have a problem with that as well Magnus 
Do you are from Denmark?
I am fine. Loading up emotionally to the game by abusing one of my favorite Englishmen on the forum (Matty), by being a silly petimeter.
Wait a minute Iām lost, Harald Hardrada was King of Norway right, he fought in the battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066.
That battle was vital in 1066 because it opened two fronts?
You moved me away from the Daneās after moving me away from referring to Norway?
Not very important this, but the original intent of my rude intervention, was to nosedly, like an ābut aktuallyā sketch, arrest you for using the incorrect term Dane in reference to Northmen
But the point I made originally was a battle between the Norwegians and then one against the French,
Only later did I make an error on Dane Law and Danes
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Today, Norway do wins against England
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I mean, since it is Match Day and all, I figured I should be in the āzoneā and attack Englishmen for the most petty of errorsš
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Aha, I zoomed in on the error like a hawk and spent 3 posts insinuating and mocking you for it.
I didnāt care about the rest you wrote, as it was not incorrect
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Iād expect nothing less from someone with such a strong Swedish name
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But since I am outrageously petty today, google āwhich Scandinavian was first to be named Magnusā.
Probably your source will say ālater the name became popular among both the Norwegian and Swedish nobility and eventually it became a more common name etcā (just guessing tbh).
āSweden has the highest number of people named Magnus in Scandinavia. With around (0.73%) of its population bearing the name, Sweden has the largest absolute and proportional countā
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