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I've heard that, following Hastings, many Anglo-Saxons left England to join the Varangian Guard. Did this produce any "brain drain" on the new Norman administration of England? How big a deal was it to have this immigration?

by /u/Comrade-Chernov in /r/AskHistorians

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