[muawiyah]

Blam, Barbara Tuchman reported that the virulence of the Black Death declined as it moved North, and by the time it got to the Arctic the death rate was less than 10%.

Guess who lives in the Arctic where the only animals other than wolves, bear and reindeer are rodents. Well, I guess you don't need to guess eh!.

[blam]

"Well, I guess you don't need to guess eh!."

Ahem, some of our people, the Sa'ami.

I've announced before that my yDNA is R1b and that I'm Irish.
Well...as it turns out with further investigation, I have a DYS-390-23 which is Scandanavian - German. The people with a DYS-390-24 are the Irish.

My heritage just moved further north.

The British who have DYS-390-23, came in with one of these invaders, Danes-Saxons-Vikings. So....

[Battle Axe]

Barbara Tuchman reported that the virulence of the Black Death declined as it moved North, and by the time it got to the Arctic the death rate was less than 10%.

Virulence as a measure of deaths, or deaths of infected persons?