[blam]

"So did R1b settle Britain?"

YES!

90% of the Irish are R1b as are 68% of all other Europeans. The female (mtDNA) equivalent is haplogroup 'H'.

My yDNA (Male) is R1b with a DYS390-23 which indicates that I am a Dane-Saxon-Viking variety. My mtDNA(female) is 'V' which are the Sa'ami (reindeer herders - Laplanders) from northern Finland....the Sa'ami part was a big suprise, lol.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Hubby’s maternal line is a real mutt mix: Saami, Swedish, Scots, English, German...

A bunch of the settlers who settled what was then New Sweden were Saami...the Swedish government was dragging anybody and everybody who gave them a reason to be considered non-desirable and sending them off to North America - where they were re-abused by the colonial government. Husband’s ancestral family sold Penn the land for Philadelphia.

[muawiyah]

To be quite objective about it, most of the Sa'ami descendants in America derive from two tribes ~ the Inari and the Skolt ~ which are now the SMALLEST Sa'ami tribes left in Fenno-Scandia.

They've been getting themselves dragged out of Finland, Russia and Norway for 3 centuries now. In America they are usually mistaken for mere Finns, or even Russians ~ (oh the horror).