Posted on 03/26/2018 2:49:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
More than a thousand years ago, the Vikings arrived on the world stage as swiftly as their longships cut through the waves. They raided and traded, conquered and colonized. They left their mark on four continents -- not just at archaeological sites, but also in the flora and fauna, the languages and local populations.
The Viking Age did not last long -- it's generally defined as beginning in the late eighth century and ending in most areas by the early 12th century -- but the explorers still capture our imagination today.
"The Vikings epitomized the freedom and strength we like in our heroes," says Judith Jesch, professor of Viking studies at the University of Nottingham. "They were enterprising and bold; they were certainly violent, but so was everyone else at the time -- and still are."
But despite their well-documented spirit of adventure, warrior culture and innovative shipbuilding, the Vikings still have their secrets. Questions remain about how they lived, where they traveled and who they really were.
Now, like ship captains setting sail to untouched shores, scientists are exploring a new age of Viking research. On this adventure, DNA is their map.
The full text of this article is available to Discover Magazine subscribers only.
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That’s just good marketing. And if you go to the complaint department, and anyone from Eric the Red’s family is on duty, just forget it and move on.
The Vikings under Rollo were settled in what came to be called Normandy. We are beholding to them for the use of family names derived from land grants that were passed down from generation to generation. That habit makes it possible for many English (and Americans) to follow their heritage as far back as the ninth century AD.
The natural assumption would be that English genes would be more prevalent in eastern Ireland than in western.
But a study of the current genetic make-up showed the opposite. The reason was that there was more migration to America from western Ireland, and the Irish who remained intermarried with the English troops stationed there.
LOL!
And I suspect Hogg's pal Emma Gonzalez will go extinct in one.
As in, for instance, this?
"...they were certainly violent, but so was everyone else at the time -- and still are."
I.e.:
"We must understand that by today's standard the Vikings were normal, I mean one just has to look at high school shootings, everyone has an automatic weapon when all they need is a bucket of rocks, etc."
There was a good 3 part documentary series on the BBC a few years ago called “Blood of the Vikings” that tested locals’ DNA in various parts of the UK. It showed the Vikings’ settlement patterns pretty clearly and was an interesting documentary series. I bet you could still find it on YouTube.
The Spanish did come to Ireland during the age of discovery, but the phoenicians probably came there as early as 1000 BC
The "Black irish" refers to their hair and eye color not the color of their skin
As for Jews, remember that they were kicked out of their homelands around 200 AD after they had slaughtered thousands of gentiles in the Bar Kochkba revolt. And genetically Jews in Europe are Jewish on the male line and Southern European on the female line - meaning that the Jewish males intermarried with locals. This has no impact on who is jewish or not as the entire "descended from your mother" is a later condition.
Many Jews converted, many half-Jews would spread. Over 2000 years you can expect the genes to be widely dispersed.
The northern Spanish, notably in Galicia and Asturias, often look nothing like the Spanish stereotype. Many could pass as locals in Glasgow, Cork, or Swansea.
Until the late 19th Century, there was little, if any, Eastern European Jewish settlement in the British Isles. Most of the Jews who entered Britain or Ireland after the revocation of their expulsion under Cromwell were Sephardic or German Jews, who settled in small numbers, and then mostly in the English cities. The odds of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Century emigres from the British Isles having Jewish ancestry were very small.
>> The northern Spanish, notably in Galicia and Asturias, often look nothing like the Spanish stereotype <<
They also like to play the bagpipes!
IOW, they were pussy grabbers.
What shocks me is when it comes to politics, many of the modern day descendant’s of the Vikings are progressive wimps.
A cautionary tale for the open-borders crowd!
In 1588 the destruction of the Spanish Armada off the west coast of Ireland (mostly by Atlantic storms) put a lot of survivors ashore, and many simply became part of the population, since you couldn't pick up a ride home very easily.
Is there anything specific in the article about their entry into Ireland?
“Could be that their boldest more be was to name an island Greenland?”
Don’t let the Global Warmers fool you. When the Vikings went there, it really was green. When the Medieval Warm Period ended, the Norse settlements in Greenland died out.
Has any research been done on the thousand year old Viking remains regarding Neanderthal DNA?
The most obvious will of course be cognitive improvements to increase overall IQ levels, but we shouldn't ignore the cosmetic aspects as well. My prediction is that everyone will want to look like Scandinavians. Years of social programming and PC will fly out the window as millions of people vote with their pocketbook to get the look they always wanted.
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