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Originally Posted by Lutiferre
Maybe, but then why is it called "France", if the Franks today are a minority?
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Lombardy took its name from the Langbardians, who had come here from your lands (previous name, Winnili): all their artifacts are strikingly germanic, from combs to belt buckles etc, not to mention the fact that tehir history is well documented.
There are many remains of them, mostly cemeteries.
However only a minority of lombards look reasonably scandinavian, the majority is alpinid and dinarid.
Despite this this last migration gave its name to Lombardy.
Just as for France, where most of the populace descends from the old gaulish - roman stock.