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Researchers have shown that not all Vikings were from Scandinavia.CREDIT: Creative Commons
Posted on 05/27/2022 10:03:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...cutting-edge DNA sequencing of more than 400 Viking skeletons from archaeological sites scattered across Europe and Greenland will rewrite the history books as it has shown:The word Viking comes from the Scandinavian term ‘vikingr’ meaning ‘pirate’. The Viking Age generally refers to the period from A.D. 800, a few years after the earliest recorded raid, until the 1050s, a few years before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066... Leif Eriksson is believed to have been the first European to reach North America – 500 years before Christopher Columbus...
- Skeletons from famous Viking burial sites in Scotland were actually local people who could have taken on Viking identities and were buried as Vikings.
- Many Vikings actually had brown hair not blonde hair.
- Viking identity was not limited to people with Scandinavian genetic ancestry. The study shows the genetic history of Scandinavia was influenced by foreign genes from Asia and Southern Europe before the Viking Age.
- Early Viking Age raiding parties were an activity for locals and included close family members.
- The genetic legacy in the UK has left the population with up to six per cent Viking DNA.
They analysed the DNA from the remains from a boat burial in Estonia and discovered four Viking brothers died the same day. The scientists have also revealed male skeletons from a Viking burial site in Orkney, Scotland, were not actually genetically Vikings despite being buried with swords and other Viking memorabilia...
The Picts were Celtic-speaking people who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late British Iron Age and Early Medieval periods...
The genetic legacy of the Viking Age lives on today with six per cent of people of the UK population predicted to have Viking DNA in their genes compared to 10 per cent in Sweden.
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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.
Yeah, heh, wow, the mitochondria DNA that didn’t match? Why, it’s almost as if the Viking rapists carried off women from all over Europe! ;^)
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.
It may be misleading, since they compared modern DNA with dead vikings, rather than the survivors who are more likely to have descendants. :^)
When I had my DNA done, not surprisingly, I had a Scandinavian share in the 20s I think. The Vikings were settled in on the British Isles.
There's a discussion of the transformation of Ireland by Viking settlers, discerned in the changing of surnames. By the time Boru fell at Clontarf, both armies were partly or mostly Scandinavian in ancestry.
In eastern England was the Danelaw, in northern England Northumbria, and the Lord of the Isles was a series of Scandinavian kings of parts of what we now call Scotland.
And what is now NW Germany (at least) was partly or wholly Scandinavian in the Viking Age.
:^)
In the old country, Egill lived between Dgill and Fgill.
My Mom’s side came from the area east of York. I’ve traced them back to 1600. Maybe there’s some Viking blood in that line, but I think they originated in Saxony.
My Dad’s side came from western Germany along the Rhine River north of Cologne, but my Opa married a Baltic girl from the Danzig area.
Ancestry says I’ve got 8% “Austria, Belarus, Czechia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.” DNA and 6% “Sweden & Denmark.” It is correct with “Germanic Europe” and “England and NW Europe” at 68% combined.
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.
My grandfather (100% Norwegian) had olive skin, black hair and dark brown eyes. My dad figured he had the blood of some Mediterranian slave girl that the Vikings had brought home.
Until he visited distant relatives up in northern Norway - Lapland. Pretty much tall, skinny Eskimos! (Still lived part-time in their Reindeer hide huts herding Reindeer.)
Netflix could have told them that most vikings were black.
My husband is dark skinned, and has black hair, and is often mistaken for being Arab or Hispanic, by people of those persuasion. My son got a DNA test and his father’s side is only French and Celtic, and related to King Duncan. No native American or black.
It was also typical for slaves to eventually work themselves into the community and sometimes becoming respected members.
the history of the world is that of mass migrations.....just like the American indians....they came from somewhere else....
We Wuz VI-KANGS
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