Originally Posted by
Not a Cop
Well, it's hard to pinpoint any original founding population, German was more of a cultural term than ethnical, the whole thing got real as a result of Northern Crusades.
Overall Baltic Germans were highly tied with Hanseatic league during medieval times, and was under control of Sweden for a couple of centuries. In general their ethnic composition can be described as a North sea germanics, mainly low Germans+Dutch, but aslo Scandinavians in a big part, and British\French\High Germans in lower amounts.
I did a K15 mnote for him, and this are results:
"Lithuanian" 42.3
"West_Norwegian" 16.4
"Hinxton4" 15.65
"Hinxton3" 13.45
"Chechen" 4.8
"Gokhem2" 3.4
"Kalash" 2.5
"Estonian" 1.4
"Hinxton2" 0.05
"Norwegian" 0.05
He turns out very North-Seaish.
His K13 oracle:
1 54% Ukrainian_Belgorod + 46% Irish @ 1.4
2 55.4% Ukrainian_Belgorod + 44.6% West_Scottish @ 1.41
3 51.2% Danish + 48.8% Ukrainian_Belgorod @ 1.54
4 52.9% Ukrainian_Belgorod + 47.1% Orcadian @ 1.68
5 50.4% North_Dutch + 49.6% Ukrainian_Belgorod @ 1.75
6 55.8% North_German + 44.2% Ukrainian_Belgorod @ 1.82
7 54.1% Southwest_Russian + 45.9% Irish @ 1.87
8 51.5% Norwegian + 48.5% Ukrainian_Belgorod @ 1.94
9 54.6% North_German + 45.4% Russian_Smolensk @ 2.02
10 55.8% North_German + 44.2% Southwest_Russian @ 2.08
11 55.5% Southwest_Russian + 44.5% West_Scottish @ 2.1