They also revealed that male skeletons from a Viking burial site in Orkney, Scotland, were not actually genetically Vikings despite being buried with swords and other Viking memorabilia. The researchers analyzed DNA from the remains from a boat burial in Estonia and discovered four Viking brothers died the same day. Professor Willerslev and colleagues sequenced the whole genomes of 442 mostly Viking Age men, women, children and babies. “Our research even debunks the modern image of Vikings with blonde hair as many had brown hair and were influenced by genetic influx from the outside of Scandinavia.” “We found genetic differences between different Viking populations within Scandinavia which shows Viking groups in the region were far more isolated than previously believed.”
“We didn’t know genetically what they actually looked like until now,” said lead author Professor Eske Willerslev, a researcher at the University of Cambridge and director of the University of Copenhagen’s Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre. Many expeditions involved raiding monasteries and cities along the coastal settlements of Europe but the goal of trading goods like fur, tusks and seal fat were often the more pragmatic aim. The Vikings changed the political and genetic course of Europe and beyond: Cnut the Great became the King of England, Leif Eriksson is believed to have been the first European to reach North America - 500 years before Christopher Columbus - and Olaf Tryggvason is credited with taking Christianity to Norway. The Viking Age generally refers to the period from 800 CE, a few years after the earliest recorded raid, until the 1050s, a few years before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The word Viking comes from the Scandinavian term ‘ vikingr’ meaning ‘ pirate.’ Image credit: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall. Margaryan et al sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sites across Europe and Greenland to understand the global influence of this expansion. On weekdays, from 6am to 10am Viking FM's breakfast show, the "Alex & Nicola In The Morning" sets the air for a happy wake-up.The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age was a far-flung transformation in world history. The station airs partly networked programming from Bauer's Hits Radio Network, like "The UK Chart Show" on Sundays from 4pm to 7pm, which is Bauer's own chart show led by Sarah-Jane Crawford, with the hottest 30 songs. Besides that, good-mooded talk-shows, phone-ins diversify the programme structure, which is filled mainly with pop music from the last 15 years. In nightime national, international news and sports fill up the hourly and half-hourly rotating info rations.
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