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Researchers have shown that not all Vikings were from Scandinavia.CREDIT: Creative Commons
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Researchers have shown that not all Vikings were from Scandinavia.CREDIT: Creative Commons
What a surprise that a people group known for raping, pillaging, and taking prisoners, isn’t genetically pure.
I identify as a Viking! Call me Egill.
6% of UK people have Viking DNA
10% of Swedes have Viking DNA
Now that is a surprising finding!
They forgot to mention the guy with the Bronx accent who killed the guy with an eyepatch. Great soundtrack from that movie.
That’s no surprise if you know the history of Vikings since they also took slaves who were of European, Celtic, Anglo, Origin. The majority of Vikings were Scandinavian. Most of the time they took offered danegeld, or murdered everyone there, and took in some slaves.
It was also typical for slaves to eventually work themselves into the community and sometimes becoming respected members.
We Wuz VI-KANGS
Almost nobody in todays’ world is “pure” anything.
It’s like a genetic Hokey Pokey speculation that never really ends.
So basically Vikings were the equivalent of a modern day motorcycle gang. “Hey Olaf, you want to get the guys together and take the boat out to go a viking?” “Viking” was a Scandinavian word for going around on your boat committing piracy.
Brown hair is a mix of red hair and blond. In my youth my hair was blond. As I grew older it became brown. My facial hair , however was red. Mom was a red head.
>> Leif Eriksson is believed to have been the first European to reach North America – 500 years before Christopher Columbus...
Is that possible given the known watercraft of that era?
“from famous Viking burial sites in Scotland”
It’s well known historically that the Norse invaded Scotland and conquered portions of it, setting up their own kingdoms and even marrying in with the local aristocracy. They did the same thing in parts of England and Ireland as well. So this isn’t any surprise in that area. The actual Norsemen who lived in those areas was probably a rather small percent of the population.
Viking timbers were discovered by NY State archaeologists 3 miles north of Albany, NY on a farm. It was in the newspapers with photos.
“Victory or Valhalla” tattoos and other Runic tattoos were commonly found on the AZOV Nazis that surrendered in Mariupol. A lot of western Ukrainians are convinced they’re descended from Vikings and aren’t Slavs at all..
FTA:
“Early Viking Age raiding parties were an activity for locals and included close family members”.
Akin to today’s 4-H activities.
I hear the Danes were kinda great.
A lot of my ancestry can be traced back to the British isles. The genetic testing my brother did said we were about 15% Scandinavian which puzzled us at first. Then we remembered the Danelaw....
Its impossible to know how much of that 15% is Viking, how much were “Danes” (Nordic settlers), how much is Norman...who were just Vikings a couple generations removed from Scandinavia. Those 3 groups were all the same people.
A lot of North Germans were Vikings too by the way. It wasn’t just Norwegians, Swedes and Danes.
