The Heritage Thread

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I wanted to start this thread so we could talk about our heritage a little. Great way to learn something about other people and each other. I'll start it off since I made the thread.

I am of descent from clan gunn. The gunns are descendants of the Norse Jarls and Earls of Orkney. Gunni, the reputed name-father of the clan, was the grandson of Sweyn Asleif's-son, the "Ultimate Viking" and hero of the Orkneyinga saga.

The writing in the picture about means, "Either peace or war". The gunns were a violent clan often waring with the Keith's and Mackay's.

 

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How were the women back then?

 

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The history is really more patriarchal. Geneology goes by the male bloodline and the important exploits of the clan were pretty much all done by men. I don't know much about the everyday living of a woman in the gunn clan, but that is a good question and I will look into it.

 

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My Grand-Grand Dad was a funny communist, my granddad a funny guy...and I'm a guy.
It runs in the family.

But to be serious...no lineage here. Egocentric kinship all the way.