I just stumbled upon this interesting paper: The Influence of the Vikings in the East Riding of Yorkshire, by Andrew Stewart, May 2, 2019.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thebrighterside.news ...
I’ve heard of the Minnesota Runestone being fake, but I’m not sure what you mean by “other evidence is apocryphal.” The creation myths aren’t; the etymological intrusion isn’t; and while the Indians I referred to are from Ontario, the presence on the Great Lakes would make Minnesota seem inevitable.
ON THE TOPIC OF HISTORICAL DEBATE OF WHAT I’VE WRITTEN:
There’s an alternate etymology of Rus, from a longer word meaning “oarsmen.” When two etymologies seem reasonably well supported, I expect the word caught on because it “seemed correct” from both sides, that having multiple valid meanings is a force multiplier to promote the new word.
“What a surprise that a people group known for raping, pillaging, and taking prisoners, isn’t genetically pure.”
Exactly. The results confirm what was already known, yet are presented as revelatory.
>>but I’m not sure what you mean by “other evidence is apocryphal.”<<
What concrete, verified evidence is there, outside of the disputed MN runestone?
Local legends and Indians reportedly with red hair don’t count as evidence, although they are interesting.
It’s like a genetic Hokey Pokey speculation that never really ends.
So that’s what it’s all about?
And, that they all had Covid-19...!!! ;-
ask tor heirdahl...
he sailed it in a paper boat.
We wuz vikangz...
Consider that the Vikings brought back so many female captives as to permanently alter the gene pool. Also young males, genetically non-vikings, were captured, adopted and raised as Vikings. Twelve hundred later Breifne, Connaught, and Leatrim are still awash with Viking “blood”.
My father is predominantly Irish as both of his grandparents came from Ireland but he had black hair when young. He was told he was black Irish, a trait that came from the Mediterranean area but had migrated to Ireland.
Huge swaths of Russia have Viking antecedents.
East Ridings, lots of Vikings. York started out as a Viking village.
Vikings were crusading for diversity, equity, and inclusion. ;-)
Murdered? My, are we judgemental. If they had the nerve to fight back then the went to Valhalla. We simply released their souls.
Hrothrekr
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Historians have known all of this (except they had no genetic proof) for decades now. This IS NOT NEW
Wow, it is almost as if diversity is built into the genome by design.
LOL!
It’s pretty much accepted that he got at least as far as Greenland.
Smart people, those Vikings — named the green one Iceland and the icy one Greenland.
I just stumbled upon this interesting paper: The Influence of the Vikings in the East Riding of Yorkshire, by Andrew Stewart, May 2, 2019.
Further Evidence of Viking Influence in the East Riding of Yorkshire, by Andrew Stewart, December 7, 2017. ANDREW STEWARTDEC 7, 2017
It had everything to do with the Vikings themselves having risen to power in a lot of spots in Europe. William I was had Scandinavian ancestry and his conquest of England endured (the House of Normandy and the Plantagenet dynasty that followed were all Wm's descendants, give or take some whoring around by their moms).
In western Europe, standing armies that were well equipped, well trained, and well led had become the rule rather than the exception. Hardraada's death at Stamford Bridge marked the end of centuries of continual Scandinavian incursions in the British Isles.
In Sicily, the Normans drove out the muzzies, and their kingdom was set up with the blessing of one of the (anti-)Popes. The other Pope wanted the territory for himself, and brought in a couple of greater powers to destroy it. He managed to get it roughed up, and partly dismantled, but he never gained territory. Evenutally the Pope was captured and compelled to recognize the Norman dynasty and sign a treaty.
Later the Norman Sicilians conquered part of what is now Libya.
In the east, there was a Norman Crusader principality with a capital in Antioch. The Crusaders and the Armenians created buffer states that extended the existence of the Byzantine (eastern Roman) Empire, but of course along came a Byzantine idiot who thought it made more sense to destroy the Armenian capital and kingdom, helping to usher in the fall of Constantinople within a century. All those underground towns in Anatolia either appeared or were rehab'ed during that period of insecurity.
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