At the time, it was the vikings invading england (yay ancestors!), and they controlled the northern tip of scotland.
Your ancestors did much better than that, Kuresu. They controlled large parts of Northern England too, especially round here. And the local accent and dialect still show the evidence - flattened vowels and lots of words of Scandinavian origin.
'I can't even fit all my wife's clothes into a suitcase for travelling. So you want me to believe we're going to put all of the planets and stars and everything into a sandwich bag?' - q3psycho on the Big Bang