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TIL There was once a hybrid people who greatly resembled the culture and people of Skellige from the Witcher 3. They were called the Norse-Gaels and they were “Celtic Vikings” from Gaelic Ireland and Scotland who exhibited Norse-Gaelic cultural Syncretism

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