Ancient population · Medieval

Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark)

Name: Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark) (Denmark_EarlyViking)
Creator: Genoplot

Denmark_EarlyViking

Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Denmark_EarlyViking), with 3 samples from Denmark, dated to c. 720–850 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sealand EVA (Medieval), Viking (Medieval, England) and Skara VA (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I1a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H2a, H7d and HV6.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 720–850 CE
Country: Denmark
Sampled near: Tollemosegard 55.63, 12.01
Sites: Tollemosegard (2)
Hundstrup Mose
Samples: 3
Published in: MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
Catalogue: Denmark_EarlyViking.SG variant

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Sealand EVA (Medieval)`Sealand_EVA`	0.88
2	Viking (Medieval, England)`England_Viking`	1.02
3	Skara VA (Medieval)`Skara_VA`	1.09
4	Oxford VA (Medieval, England)`England_Oxford_VA`	1.14
5	Viking (Medieval, Iceland)`Iceland_Viking`	1.18
6	Viking (Medieval, Norway)`Norway_Viking`	1.26
7	Saxon (Early Medieval, England)`England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon`	1.26
8	Pre Christian (Iceland)`Iceland_Pre_Christian`	1.28
9	North VA (Medieval)`North_VA`	1.30
10	Funen VA (Medieval)`Funen_VA`	1.32

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Norwegian`Norwegian`	1.17
2	Danish`Danish`	1.32
3	Icelandic`Icelandic`	1.72
4	Swedish`Swedish`	1.81
5	Dutch`Dutch`	1.95
6	Orcadian`Orcadian`	2.03
7	Scottish`Scottish`	2.09
8	Welsh`Welsh`	2.21
9	Irish`Irish`	2.25
10	English`English`	2.31

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

I1a1b1a1 I-P109
I1a1b1a1c1 I-Y6374

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 6

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`VK296_noUDG.SG`	M	660-780 calCE	Hundstrup Mose	I1a1b1a1 I-P109	HV6
`VK69_noUDG.SG`	F	700-1000 CE	Tollemosegard		H2a2a1
`VK70_noUDG.SG`	M	700-1000 CE	Tollemosegard	I1a1b1a1c1 I-Y6374	H7d4
`VK297_noUDG.SG` outlier	M	670-830 calCE	Hundstrup Mose	I1 I-L121	J1c2h
`VK65_noUDG.SG` outlier	F	700-1000 CE	Tollemosegard		V25
`VK71_noUDG.SG` outlier	M	700-1000 CE	Tollemosegard	I1 I-L121	U5a1a