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    Vikings may not have been blonde, or Scandinavian

    Vikings may not have been blonde, or Scandinavian

    It seems the Vikings were mixed with Asians and South Europeans. Makes sense considering that were coastal and trade based.

    Those ferocious seafaring warriors that explored, raided and traded across Europe from the late eighth to the early 11th centuries, known as the Vikings, are typically thought of as blonde Scandinavians. But Vikings may have a more diverse history: They carried genes from Southern Europe and Asia, a new study suggests.

    "We didn't know genetically what they actually looked like until now," senior author Eske Willerslev, a fellow of St. John's College of the University of Cambridge, and director of The Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, said in a statement. The research "debunks the modern image of Vikings."


    For the study, which took six years to complete, an international group of researchers analyzed the DNA taken from the remains — such as the teeth and bones — of 442 people who lived sometime between about 2400 B.C. to A.D.1600 found in archaeological sites across Europe and Greenland. These people lived, for the most part, during the Viking Age, which lasted from about A.D. 750 to A.D. 1050. The researchers then compared these ancient people's DNA with already published DNA sequences from 3,855 modern-day individuals and from 1,118 other ancient individuals.

    This sweeping gene analysis suggested that the Vikings weren't just the continuation of Iron Age groups who lived from about 500 B.C. to about A.D. 700 in Scandinavia before the Viking Age. Rather, the Vikings and their ancestors would have intermingled often with people from Asia and Southern Europe. Many Viking individuals had "high levels of non-Scandinavian ancestry," the authors wrote in the paper.

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    Heres a funny. When I was a kid I assumed the Vikings were all from Minnesota. I still connect that same dot but of course I know better now
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    I know a couple vikings in Minnesota (not NFL, for sure). Anyway, this story feels kind of trendy -- too trendy. Trendy science.

    Why can't they just say vikings were sans-jews, which is much more likely. Nothing wrong with that. Indeed, the older I get, the more positive my opinion of people who adopted Christianity but didn't have a judeo-christian background.

    Would CC agree with that? I think so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    I know a couple vikings in Minnesota (not NFL, for sure). Anyway, this story feels kind of trendy -- too trendy. Trendy science.

    Why can't they just say vikings were sans-jews, which is much more likely. Nothing wrong with that. Indeed, the older I get, the more positive my opinion of people who adopted Christianity but didn't have a judeo-christian background.

    Would CC agree with that? I think so.
    Toss up with these things: science or history. I found it through Real Clear Science (not Real Clear History) so I put it in science.

    Sans-Jew. I didn't catch that angle....
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    Another article on them I saw the other day: VIKINGS MAY NOT BE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE, DNA STUDY FINDS.
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