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lynx
I'm no expert on this particular period, but this is a stretch. It was only around this time that England began to exist as a politically unified kingdom. The invasion of Ireland that occurred not long after was initiated by the Normans, who at the time ruled England having invaded from Northern France, and were the descendents of Vikings, and so on...