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!
I spent some time living in Iceland in the 1970s. When I studied the early roots of pre-Norman English legal traditions and institutions, I noted the tremendous contribution of the Viking concepts of indvidualism, property, tort, family feud and tribal assembly to the English common law and notion of the "rights of Englishman."
I also studied the Roman contribution and how that was integrated.
The Vikings ruled much of Great Britain for centuries. There was even an area of the eastern part called the Danelaw. Many of the towns in certain parts of England still bear names traced back to Viking traditions.