Posted on 11/26/2010 10:24:36 AM PST by pillut48
Pity poor Leif Ericsson. The Viking explorer may well have been the first European to reach the Americas, but it is a certain Genoan sailor who gets all the glory. Thanks to evidence that has until now consisted only of bare archeological remains and a bunch of Icelandic legends, Ericsson has long been treated as a footnote in American history: no holiday, no state capitals named after him, no little ditty to remind you of the date of his voyage. But a group of Icelandic and Spanish scientists studying one mysterious genetic sequence - and one woman who's been dead 1,000 years - may soon change that.
Ten years ago, Agnar Helgason, a scientist at Iceland's deCODE Genetics, began investigating the origin of the Icelandic population. Most of the people he tested carried genetic links to either Scandinavians or people from the British Isles. But a small group of Icelanders - roughly 350 in total - carried a lineage known as C1, usually seen only in Asians and Native Americans. "We figured it was a recent arrival from Asia," says Helgason. "But we discovered a much deeper story than we expected."
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Surprisingly, Brett Favre was thinking of retirement even back then. Bob
From the article:
“Until now, the historical evidence has suggested that while the Vikings may have reached the Americas, they didn’t really engage with the indigenous population.”
“Engage” seems not sufficient. “Consummate” it the correct word.
Most Vikings fans would like to see Favre and Childress stranded in Iceland.
Be cautious, Vikings. Once the contact between Vikings and native Americans has been proven, the Left will use something obscure like a finger bone and soil sample to invent a history where a million billion native Americans died from Viking diseases as the result of that contact.
yes it’s interesting stuff — we have a Cherokee grandmother with blue eyes. Did dna testing, found Norwegian
Or perhaps “forked”?
Very Euro-centric. Who’s to say she didn’t get their on her own? Perhaps a bunch of Native Americans “discovered” Iceland and left behind some of their DNA. Since there is no historic record, it is just as possible.
The Viking colonists from Iceland were too small a population to carry any infectious diseases to the New World.
Most likely a Greenland Inuit woman.
Probably a descendant of one of the many 19th century settlers taken as slaves then. She/you should sue the casinos for reparations...
In 1996, I read, in the L.A. Times, that, in Oregon, scientists found a skeleton, and they know, from the bones, that the person was a white man. Because of the age, the scientists know that the man died before the first Indians came, on the natural bridge, from Asia. This proved that Whites were on North America before Indians, but I didn’t hear much about this news.
Geez. Is the </sarc> tag ALWAYS necessary?
Very likely an Inuit. Greenland isn’t that far from Iceland and after 1380 the islands were under the rule of Denmark.
Is it also “Euro-Centric” to think that birch-bark canoes wouldn’t last very long in the North Atlantic? LOL
Norwegian mailman?
My wife’s great-grandmother was Mohawk, and supposedly the heritage is matrilineal so she (jokingly) claims she could check off “Native American” on surveys and such (along with our daughter). Of course, when she gets a nosebleed she’s out of the tribe....
Next thing you know some Icelanders will demand reparations from us for sins against their forefathers (mothers).
I knew it!
People being people, they actually came from other places by boat as well as migration. Testing DNA in Native Americans has produced some interesting results, but how to interpret the results is the issue.
they can tell you where the dna has been but not the timeline
I propose a compromise: The United States of Americsson.
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