Bloodthirsty pillagers? No, the Vikings who invaded Britain 1,000 years ago were on a mission of love because rich polygamists back home were marrying all the women

And can you blame those roving Viking men? With no football, TV, or pubs in their native land, what's a lad to do on those long, cold nights?

Pity we stopped allowing only those who had achieved something to be allowed to procreate, unlike the mongrels we read about battering their kids or the types on Kyle. Why do so many women have kids with so many utter losers?

"Mission of love". Elegantly said.

Oooh !!! Them Vikings are a randy lot !!! Mind you, they also have some of the prettiest girls !!!

Exactly the same as modern Britain then !

'Polygamy'? Now where have I heard that word before? Alive and well in towns up and down the country.

So the poor, young Vikings had to grab a British girl. Personally I would have travelked East from Scandinavia as the Russian girls are infinately better looking than the girls in Britain.

Wow, nice idea you have given me DM.....

Here is a help , google.. Lingard skuteminne ..in Norway you can always translate or even contact the people or both .

Finally, a decent explanation for the current shortage/surplus of looks in the UK/Scandinavia.

So they weren't Lapers and Rooters ! Damn ! No wonder all my exam results were so low !!!

Nothing has changed there then.

Lovely fellas, always held an annual pillage fete in the pillage hall !

They were just a bunch of hyyge hipsters who's game of 'Grab a Saxon harridan' was ruined by Harold Godwinson at Stamford Bridge.

Not vikings this time.

Reparations for the British! Where there is blame...

I Bet the Polygamous husbands were the first on the boat..................

Increased wealth could not increase the number of Scandinavian females. Such influxes of plundered wealth would only increase Scandinavia's polygamy problem.The researchers could make a better argument that rich polygamists financed these dangerous raiding voyages to increase their wealth & polygamy, while reducing the destabilising supply of living single males in their society.

I always thought they came here for the food and weather, just like all the most recent "visitors".