How much did the "Vikings" really influence the UK?

[Grace O'Malley]

People might also want to look at this. It should still be getting updated with more info on the ydna and mtdna of more genomes.

One of them has my exact mtdna

Sample: VK102 / Iceland_128
Location: Hofstadir, Iceland
Age: Viking 10-13th centuries CE
Y-DNA: R-FGC23826
FTDNA Comment: Shares 3 SNPs with a man from Sweden. Forms a new branch downstream of R-FGC23826. New branch = R-Y96503
mtDNA: J1c3f

Here's the link.

https://dna-explained.com/2020/09/18...-updates-here/

[PaleoEuropean]

Seems to be that the most common mtDNA on vikings were J1 and T2, and the most common in these L21 vikings is H and U. This might tell us something, a small hint.

Idk though, they are so diverse that it seems that they recruited raiders and soldiers from every place they existed in, a lot of those R1b's could be continental Germans and Saxons recruited by Viking bands, Vikings often were more or less independent pirates. The only telling ones would be in Scotland and England where there was actual support from the Scandinavian nobility for settlements. Some of the clades I can see off the bat are more Celtic oriented than German, some even Southern/Central European.

[Grace O'Malley]

Seems to be that the most common mtDNA on vikings were J1 and T2, and the most common in these L21 vikings is H and U. This might tell us something, a small hint.

I think H and U are the most common in Europe but J1c is my mtdna and I have 2 full matches in Ireland but 1 step matches in England, Norway, Sweden and the Russian Federation. Not sure what way it went though.

[PaleoEuropean]

I think H and U are the most common in Europe but J1c is my mtdna and I have 2 full matches in Ireland but 1 step matches in England, Norway, Sweden and the Russian Federation. Not sure what way it went though.

Yea The only telling ones are the rare ones like mine H2a1 which only exists in a handful of populations. Both H and U also exist in Asia too.

[David Johnson]

Norse Vikings=Parts of Scotland, and not really England. Dane vikings=England. For England it is Hard to tell, because Anglo-Saxons were from North Germany and Southern Denmark, so these populations would of been very similar.

[Teutone]

Deep down you are a Viking, stop lying to yourself

Id be highly ashamed to be related to people that looted,butchered and raped my ancestors.

[PaleoEuropean]

Id be highly ashamed to be related to people that looted,butchered and raped my ancestors.

That is just propaganda

[Teutone]

That is just propaganda

Its a historical fact and based on sources of my ancestors. Germans got nothing to do with Vikings, we are latinized Germanics and that made us a world power blessed with christianity.

[Graham]

Would be hard to deny the influence on Scotland, with the Seafaring fighting Lordship & Kingdom of the Isles and associated clans playing a massive part in Scottish history long after the Viking era.

[Benyzero]

Its a historical fact and based on sources of my ancestors. Germans got nothing to do with Vikings, we are latinized Germanics and that made us a world power blessed with christianity.

We pastoral brown southern catholic people doesn't understand these barbarians