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Up here there is terrain that makes most large scale migrations seem unlikely , but even still there have been influxes of people from the south ,east and north in intervalls.

After the last round of great migrations in app 400 AD things settled down somewhat with a "normal trickle of migration .But as things developed slaves were imported to an extent were scientists believe that as much as 25% of the population were from different populations .These ranged from Northern Africa to Byzantium to the Slavic kingdoms like Kiev etc .Especially the Irish were taken -due to the internal wars going on there and the strong position of the Norse enclaves , alot of Irish ended up as thralls in Norway and Denmark .On the other hand,many norse intermingled with the Irish ( and brits) so the mix up goes both ways I suppose.
Considering the range these empires had on their sphere of influence the mix is vastly complex.

The Icelandic people are emigrees from an age before the heyday of the slavery business and thus more homogenous in their ancestry .They have also been isolated far from any large population bases and thus retain much of their initial makeup,language etc from ca 1000 AD.

Norway as a modern nation has just started to come to terms with being a multi ethnic society these last 5-10 years.Before the whole ethnicity topic was a big no no for fear of stepping on someones toes one way or the other.

The debates still goes on - what to call the child of pakistani immigrants that came here to work in the 1970s ? Norwegian -Pakistani or just Norwegian ?

My ethnic group ? - why I am an RPGer of the T2K subcategory.