Loaded terms in free software

Posted Jun 22, 2020 13:55 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Loaded terms in free software by vegard
Parent article: Loaded terms in free software

There is no trace of Viking slavery in modern society, unlike American slavery in American society. You cannot tell (or guess) by looking at somebody that their ancestors were slaves. Moreover, nobody feels (or even knows) like slavery is part of their heritage. It's too long ago. Maybe there aren't even many survivors, I wouldn't know.

Fun fact: in Iceland this is not so true: ~62% of Icelandic mtDNA derives from Scotland and Ireland, while 75% of Icelandic Y chromosome lineages are Scandiavian. It seems likely that there were so many generations of raids taking women from Ireland and Scotland (places easily reachable from Iceland) that this has permanently affected the Icelandic population's genome. (You can't tell this from *looking* at them, mind you.)