The Viking age has left a lasting mark on the genetics of today’s Scandinavians, according to scientists who also documented the outsized genetic influence of Baltic and British-Irish women who arrived in the region amid conquests by Norsemen in Europe.
“Vikings were an interesting group of people, existing for some 2½ centuries and impacting the world in ways we still need to understand,” Gotherstrom said. The Viking age extended from about 750 to 1050 AD. An important early event was a devastating Viking raid in 793 on a Christian monastery on the English island of Lindisfarne, with later attacks at numerous sites including Paris and Constantinople and trade contacts all the way to the Middle East.
“It was Scandinavian societies, initial pagan but eventually Christian, that founded their economy on small farms, internal and external trade, and plundering. The Vikings were the first people to visit four continents,” Gotherstrom added.The genetic contribution of outsiders was found to have waned in Scandinavians after the Viking age.
My DNA on Ancestry and my late mums DNA also tested on Ancestry comes up with Norwegian Drilling down on mums it doesn’t seem to come down from her Irish side (her dad) but is linked to her Scottish side (her mum) I think it’s just Scotland/Norway people in ships 4 1000’s yrs