[Hodar]

Promiscuous Vikings??!!? Say it isn't so.

[VRWCmember]

Hmm, wonder if the study included anything about crossing of felines and vikings?

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[RightWhale]

blue eyes, fair hair, beards

horns on their parka hoods

[Oatka]

What about mitochondrial DNA (females)? That stuff is supposed to be traceable down many generations.

[IronKros]

Russians also lived with and mingled with the inuits. They are the laplanders who started tke 'Eskimo Kiss'. They had fairer skin and lighter features than the native mongul-looking laps.

Just got back from the Lapland and Artic Museums in Finland.

[farmfriend]

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[LN2Campy]

There's no doubt in my mind that some blending between the Greenland Norse and the so-called "skraelings" occured. Especially when the global cooling in the 14th century rendered the Norse lifestyle untenable in Greenland. They either adapted to the Inuit ways, went back to Iceland or died. It makes sense that some probably joined up with Inuit bands and passed along their looks--the Inuit gene pool is not a very large one, so even the recessive traits (fair hair and blue/green eyes)of the Norse could be preserved.

[marsh2]

I had heard similar anecdotal tale about a gray haired, blue eyed strain of "Native American" that inhabited the Martha's Vineyard area when the latter day European explorers came through.

[autoresponder]

Great thread post!

Check the ancestors of Viking King Harold the Black of Iceland.

Iceland still has the decendants of blue-eyed Vikings living there today.

Also check the bloodlines DNA of the MacLeods of Isle of Skye, Castle Dunvegan.

John MacLeod, 29th Chief of Clan MacLeod, Castle Dunvegan, Isle of Skye is the direct descendant of Leod the Black, or Leod Olafson.

http://www.dunvegancastle.com/

Leod was the son of Olaf the Black.

He was given the Isle of Skye in Scotland as a dowry from his Danish Knight father in law.

He was the first Chief of Clan MacLeod and a direct decendant of King Harold of Iceland who is of Norwegian royalty blood.

http://www.macleodgenealogy.com/ACMS/D0050/I82.html

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/dlmcleod/leod.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mackenzie/d0005/f0000507.html

King Harold had sons and grandsons that sailed east to Newfoundland and further south.

It would be interesting if the Iceland ancestors of King Harold of Iceland and/or current Clan MacLeod Chief John McLeod had matching DNA to the DNA of Inuits now in Canada.

Just passing down some old family stories from my grandfather Murdick Lemuel McLeod backed up by detailed genealogical records we have and also those on the internet GenWebSite.

http://genweb.whipple.org/d0163/I45945.html

Unlike Hillary I do not need ice blue contact lenses.

I read back a bit that the DNA of one schoolteacher in England matched his ancient ancestor's found in a bog.

Keep up these great threads on these subjects.

Time is slice up this great thick antelope steak with my trusty dirk and have a wee bit of scotch!

[mtbopfuyn]

That's great. I never understood why some refuse to believe people traveled further than the opening of their caves and didn't intermingle folks from hundreds of miles away. It's like that commercial - Bubba intermingled with someone, and they intermingled with someone, and so on and so on.

[rokdr]

The rather droll side-story, is that before he left the arctic, Vjalmar Stepnansson managed to leave a little of his own viking DNA in the Mackenzie Delta srea, so that to this day there are Stephanssons living in Inuvik [and they are neither blond, nor Nordic-looking]!