Quite a few settled on the Baltic and effectively became part of the Baltic German ethnic group. The Barclay de Tolly family was descended from Scots and the famous general was born in Courland and g… (View Post)

Maybe more stylish, but it also weighed less. (View Post)

He's not really that short either. 5'7" I think. I'm 5'4". (View Post)

And of course the Government could have done all that *without* Boris being an arse. (View Post)

How do they know who the crew were? Yes they could have been Svea, people went back and forth between England and the ancestral homelands. The East Anglian king could have maintained a Svea boat crew… (View Post)