DNA from archaeological remains shows that immigration to Scandinavia was exceptional during the Viking period

Science News ^ | January 5, 2023 | Stockholm University

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Summary: A new study based on 297 ancient Scandinavian genomes analysed together with the genomic data of 16,638 present day Scandinavians resolve the complex relations between geography, ancestry, and gene flow in Scandinavia — encompassing the Roman Age, the Viking Age and later periods. A surprising increase of variation during the Viking period indicates that gene flow into Scandinavia was especially intense during this period.

A new study based on 297 ancient Scandinavian genomes analysed together with the genomic data of 16,638 present day Scandinavians resolve the complex relations between geography, ancestry, and gene flow in Scandinavia — encompassing the Roman Age, the Viking Age and later periods. A surprising increase of variation during the Viking period indicates that gene flow into Scandinavia was especially intense during this period.

An international study coordinated from Stockholm and Reykjavik investigates the development of the Scandinavian gene pool over the latest 2000 years. In this effort the scientists relied on historic and prehistoric genomes, and from material excavated in Scandinavia. These ancient genomes were compared with genomic data from 16,638 contemporary Scandinavians. As the geographical origin and the datings were known for all these individuals, it was possible to resolve the development of the gene pool to a level never realised previously...

Another new discovery in this study was what happened to the gene pool after the Viking period. The scientists were surprised to find that it bounced back in the direction of what it looked like before the Viking period migration.

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Study Shows How Viking Age Left Mark on Scandinavians' Genetics
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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Hootowl99 for the additional link!

[jjotto]

They mean kidnapping people for slaves who interbred with their Norsemen captors left evidence? Surprise, surprise, surprise!

[BenLurkin]

Slaves from everywhere they conquered?

[GaryCrow]

In other words, Vikings came home with a lot of captured women slaves.

[imabadboy99]

I guess they don’t need anymore “diversity” then

[algore]

There was a period of global warming when Greenland was green, and those countries were the lands of milk and honey.

Even today invaders from the desert regions are migrating to these countries

[DesertRhino]

Yes pretty much. From raids in France, from raids in England, from the length of the Volga down to the Black Sea. They brought captives back from everywhere. There was a preference for women.

[ought-six]

“In other words, Vikings came home with a lot of captured women slaves.”

Yup.

[Candor7]

A surprising increase of variation during the Viking period indicates that gene flow into Scandinavia was especially intense during this period.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

All those slaves the Vikings brought back from Queensland!

And the Vikings made them row all the way over to Newfoundland!

[FarCenter]

Professor Anders Götherström at the Centre for Palaeogenetics, who is a senior scientist on the study, is intrigued: "Interestingly, the non-local ancestry peaks during the Viking period while being lower before and after. The drop in current levels of external ancestry suggests that the Viking-period migrants got less children, or somehow contributed proportionally less to the gene pool than the people who were already in Scandinavia."

Possibly the immigrants arrived during the Medieval warm period and did not do well when the climate turned colder in the little ice age.

[rxh4n1]

Yes pretty much. From raids in France, from raids in England, from the length of the Volga down to the Black Sea. They brought captives back from everywhere. There was a preference for women.

And they left a bunch behind. I got the Ancestry DNA test and I’m 77% German with 5% Norwegian.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

There was a preference for women? No fooling, Sven!

[Carriage Hill]

“There was a preference for women.”

As opposed to muslims’(SPIT!) penchant for goats or sheep?

[nickcarraway]

Biden the Red.

[ClearCase_guy]

Madness! Slavery was invented by Americans in 1619 because they hated black people!

[sunny bonobo]

This study can’t possibly be true. Haven’t we been told by all the current race hustlers and wokesters that the Vikings were always diverse and had black queens as their rulers?

[FlyingEagle]

Does this mean I get $ Trillions in reparations too?

[Retain Mike]

Yes. I really enjoyed the phrase “immigration to Scandinavia”.

[DesertRhino]

“And they left a bunch behind.”

That too! LOL