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grey-areatoday at 6:30 AM1 replyview on HN

The Danes colonised England. They never left but merged with the existing population.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Danelaw


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bpodgurskytoday at 5:12 PM

Not really, the genetic contribution of Danes to modern English DNA is somewhere 0-10%. There was some merging but pretty marginal.