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Seeing your reaction just proves how blurry the whole idea of ethnicity is in Europe. Normans were originally Germanic Vikings from Scandinavia, but they moved to Normandy, started speaking French, and basically turned into full-on Frenchmen.
Yet the French just call them part of the French cultural sphere and act like the Viking origin is bullshit. That right there shows how meaningless all these "nation" and "ethnicity" labels are in Europe. Germanic Vikings and Frenchmen at the same time? lol
And yeah, that's probably how the Romans who ruled the Mediterranean for centuries just disappeared too. When look at European history like this, it's really complicated but also pretty fascinating