Maybe some relatives, Weegs?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/03/12/viking.olympics/index.html?hpt=T2

*London, England (CNN)* -- They were 51 young men who met a grisly death far
from home, their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into a mass
grave.

Their resting place was unknown until last year, when workmen excavating for
a road near the London 2012 Olympic sailing venue in Weymouth, England,
unearthed the grave. But questions remained about who the men were, how long
they had been there and why they had been decapitated.

On Friday, officials revealed that analysis of the men's teeth shows they
were Vikings, executed with sharp blows to the head around a thousand years
ago. They were killed during the Dark Ages, when Vikings frequently invaded
the region.

"To find out that the young men executed were Vikings is a thrilling
development," said David Score, project manager for Oxford Archaeology,
which excavated the remains. "Any mass grave is a relatively rare find, but
to find one on this scale, from this period of history, is extremely unusual
and presents an incredible opportunity to learn more about what is happening
in Dorset at this time."

Radiocarbon dating had already placed the remains between A.D. 890 and 1030,
before the Norman conquest of Anglo-Saxon England.

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