re: #464 wheat-dogghazi

The Western Roman Empire fell in the 5th century, and Charlemagne ruled during the 9th in a bit of a Roman backwater. Education was very limited, so it’s entirely believable that many Frankish people knew nothing of the Romans. The Vikings were probably as a whole not much better educated, but at least they traveled a lot and got to see more of the world than Charles’ lot.

and the Northmen did not read and write (really). Yet, they left their seed all over the known world.