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| | GERMANIA: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Vikings, Orkney, etc. |
 | | If a contemporary was betting on which English Kingdom would have dominated the others, Mercia might long have seemed the one poised to do so, as it was larger and bordered on most of the others. |
| | For instance, the line of Thorstein the Red intermarries with the Earls of Orkney -- the Orkneys are the group of islands off the north end of Scotland. |
| | The Lords, called Earls in English fashion, thus with equal or better justice could be called "Jarls," with the Norwegian cognate. |
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