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Dark hair was common among Vikings, genetic study confirms

• rbecker 6y ago
  > genetic variants for dark hair were relatively common among Vikings. Relative to what? "Common" could mean anywhere from 10% to 80%, and the article somehow never manages to explain.
  • mikeymz 6y ago
    it's not explicitly stated but it's fairly clear that the comparison is with Scandinavians
• mikeymz 6y ago
  Confirming that you are not a Viking but that you go Viking. Fairly obvious when you consider this is an "ing" adjective
• wahern 6y ago
  > Among their results the team found that from the iron age, southern European genes entered Denmark and then spread north, while – to a lesser extent – genes from Asia entered Sweden. A friend of Scandinavian extraction found through 23&Me that his Y chromosome comes from China. His variant traveled from SE Asia north to Siberia, then west to Scandinavia, presumably carried by progenitors of the Sámi. Circumpolar peoples certainly got around, but I guess it's also much easier to travel around the world at those latitudes.