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Poppa
>Her parentage is uncertain and may have been invented after the fact to legitimize her sons lineage, as many of the fantastic genealogical claims made by Dudo were. Based on her separate more Danico status that differentiates her from Rollo's Christian wife Gisela of France, Poppa's family was unlikely to have been powerful Christian nobility who would have insisted by force if necessary-on a legal and monogamous Christian marriage for their daughter.
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>So that from internal as well as external evidence the whole story of Popa falls to the ground, and we are left to the conclusion that the mother of William Longsword was a Norse woman and no victim of the sack of Bayeux.
Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Volume 45, Part 2 p. 242
Sprota
>Sprota was an early 10th century woman of obscure origin who became wife in the Viking fashion (more danico) of William I, Duke of Normandy
>The first mention of Sprota is by her contemporary, Flodoard of Reims. Although he does not name her, he identifies her under the year [943] as the mother of "William' s son [Richard] born of a Breton concubine".[6]
>The name Sprota seems to contain the same root as the anthroponym Sprot found in the Domesday Book and in various place-names both in England such as Sprotbrough (Sproteburg 1086) and in Normandy like the Eprevilles, such as Epreville (Sprovilla 1025), [11] which is at the same time Anglo-Saxon as Sprota, [12] Anglo-Scandinavian and Scandinavian (see Sproti [13]).
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Either Breton, or just as likely, Norse.
Gunnor/Gunnora (Old Norse: Gunnvọr)
>The first part is Old Norse gunnr ("battle"), from Proto-Germanic *gunþiz. The second part is vor Probably derived from the Old Norse adjective varr ("careful, wise, loyal")
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>according to Dudo of Saint-Quentin she was of noble Danish ancestry.
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