| Tango01 | 14 Aug 2015 1:05 p.m. PST |
"Almost one million Britons alive today are of Viking descent, which means one in 33 men can claim to be direct descendants of the Vikings. Around 930,000 descendents of warrior race exist today – despite the Norse warriors' British rule ending more than 900 years ago. A genetic study carried out by BritainsDNA compared the Y chromosome markers – DNA inherited from father to son – of more than 3,500 men to six DNA patterns that are rarely found outside of Scandinavia and are associated with the Norse Vikings…"
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Buffs man  | 14 Aug 2015 1:26 p.m. PST |
Only 1,000,000 , that is a real surprise |
| Swampster | 14 Aug 2015 2:20 p.m. PST |
Note – Norse Viking.
IIRC, Dane genes are harder to distinguish from Saxon. |
| Fried Flintstone | 14 Aug 2015 3:38 p.m. PST |
Presumably that genes could also have come from the Normans ? |
| kodiakblair | 14 Aug 2015 4:20 p.m. PST |
I would have put it higher but it's probably regional. The fellas in the Western Isles will account for a fair bit not so much in Central Scotland where I am. |
| Dn Jackson | 14 Aug 2015 8:45 p.m. PST |
The part that gets me is that they tested 3,500 people and extrapolated that out to 930,000. I know how statistics work, but I can't help but think there's always the chance that they chose the only 3,500 decendents of Vikings in the whole country. |
| Perris0707 | 14 Aug 2015 9:19 p.m. PST |
Millions more live in Minnesota and Wisconsin… |
| kustenjaeger | 15 Aug 2015 3:42 a.m. PST |
Greetings Most of the Norman settlement was apparently Danish so, if the test was for Norse not Dane, these would not really show up. Also the results vary significantly by region – which makes sense. My surname is apparently derived from pagan Danish so may have originated in the Danish settlements in eastern England. Regards Edward |
| Huscarle | 15 Aug 2015 4:09 a.m. PST |
Hmm, my surname is from the old Norse too, and I know my ancestors were border reivers, so I would add myself to the number even though I'm from the "soft south"  |
| Gunfreak | 15 Aug 2015 11:12 a.m. PST |
The "Danish" genes in Britain probebly comes from the setteling of danes during the viking age. It doesn't appear there was much gene transfers from the normans, they were the lords of the lands not the people. So no danish genes by the way of normans. |
| foxweasel | 15 Aug 2015 5:27 p.m. PST |
In very simplified speak, the Danish Vikings were just Angles a couple of hundred years on, people from Denmark, Holland and NW Germany had been settling in eastern Britain for hundreds of years. The only reason that the Vikings were made out to be such a big deal is that they were pagans and England had only relatively recently converted to Christianity. In my very unlearned opinion the vast majority of English people will have viking blood, just not Norse/Norwegian. I live in rural Lincolnshire and the amount of villages with Danish names is unreal, I'm fairly sure they didn't settle these areas then just die out. |
| anleiher | 15 Aug 2015 7:16 p.m. PST |
Didn't need a genetic study to verify this. Ever seen a Sunderland FC match? |
| Wombling Free | 16 Aug 2015 3:15 p.m. PST |
This research only points out direct male lineage, thus ignoring all the other female and male contributors to your heritage. Mark Jobling once noted that if your family is from north-western Europe then it is pretty much a statistical impossibility that you do not have Viking ancestry somewhere, and potentially a whole lot of it. He used saltier language to express this idea, but he should know. |
gets medieval.