Posted on 02/07/2009 8:24:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Scientists at deCODE genetics have completed the largest study of ancient DNA from a single population ever undertaken. Analyzing mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to offspring, from 68 skeletal remains, the study provides a detailed look at how a contemporary population differs from that of its ancestors. The results confirm previous deCODE work that used genetics to test the history of Iceland as recorded in the sagas. These studies demonstrated that the country seems to have been settled by men from Scandinavia – the vikings – but that the majority of the original female inhabitants were from the coastal regions of Scotland and Ireland, areas that regularly suffered raids by vikings in the years around the settlement of Iceland 1100 years ago... the original female settlers are genetically less closely related to present-day Icelanders, and instead more closely related to the present day populations of Scotland, Ireland and Scandinavia, as well as those of northwestern and southwestern Europe. This is a demonstration of a phenomenon known as 'genetic drift.' In essence, in any population certain individuals will have more offspring and, by chance and in this case over the course of 35 generations, many more descendants than others. And as a result, particularly in a small population, the genetic variety of the original population can decrease and change over time. In this study only mitochondrial DNA was studied, but the same phenomenon applies to the Y chromosome, which is passed from fathers to sons, and to any other part of the genome.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
The circles represent the gene pools of the Scottish and Irish, Icelandic and Scandinavian population groups at different points in time. Circle diameter broadly reflects the relative population sizes. The vertical arrows represent the transmission of DNA between generations within populations, while the diagonal arrows represent the settlement of Iceland from 870 to 930 AD from Scotland, Ireland and Scandinavia. (Credit: Helgason et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000343.g002)
Researchers retrieve authentic Viking DNA from 1,000-year-old skeletons
www.physorg.com | 05/28/2008 | Staff
Posted on 05/28/2008 6:46:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Archaeological sensation in Oestfold [ Inca remains from 11th c Norway? ]
Norway Post | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 | Rolleiv Solholm (NRK)
Posted on 06/26/2007 11:34:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Other than an extensive sampling on a time line, how would it be possible to know that a strain of DNA arrived in the tenth century rather than the seventeenth or eighteenth?
First we discover continental drift and now genetic drift. I think that its imperative that we put a stop to both of them. They are destroying the planet as we know it.
This is a demonstration of a phenomenon known as ‘genetic drift.’ “
Well, that is a polite way to say “kidnapping and rape”
Another word would be slavery. I think Irish and Scottish women are due some reparations.
The ones in Iceland? Now, think about that - they owe themselves?
Perhaps the longboats and knarls pulled up to the dock in Ireland, and 50 willing,nubile, young women jumped on board, to go colonise some far-away place named “ICELAND”...but it hardly seems likely.
Or, as we say in my family (Scots/Irish/German), “...there is a viking in the closet somewhere!”
People on the main island part of Iceland have last names in the Scandinavian tradition - father’s first name plus son or dotir as the sex of the person indicates. On the southern offshore islands, they have Irish and Welsh names. Supposedly, the slaves ran away and found refuge there.
Exactly — it wouldn’t be. The weakness of such studies is that they use the DNA samples which have mananged to survive — something largely the work of chance, give or take ancestral lines who managed to get busy. ;’)
That was my first thought: that the female line descends from captives taken in raids on Scotland, Ireland, etc.
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