Podcast: Genes chart Vikings’ journeys
Researchers sequenced the genomes of 442 human remains found at archaeological sites across Europe and Greenland and uncovered distinct migrations during the influential Viking Age (around AD 750–1050). Danish Vikings headed for England, Swedish Vikings went east to the Baltics and Norwegian Vikings travelled to Ireland, Iceland and Greenland, while newcomers were also entering Scandinavia from the west. The genomes of four brothers from a Viking burial site in Estonia were linked to kin found hundreds of kilometres away, illustrating the mobility that characterized the age.
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