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By the way, there is another theory that adscribes him a Scandinavian origin, some stranded Viking from the raids in the early times of the Kingdom of Asturias (and from there to the later Kingdom of Leon).

And yet another theory that tells that he is originally from Brittany.

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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum

prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

–Plato–

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–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–