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In movies/tv/books, the Viking invasions of England portray there being a distinct difference between the local Anglo-Saxons and the invading Danes -- but the Danes came from much the same region as the Anglos/Saxons/Frisians/Jutes. Did contemporaries living in England see Danes as so different?

by /u/manfrin in /r/AskHistorians

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