Ancient population · Medieval

Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)

Estonia_EarlyViking

Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Estonia_EarlyViking), with 31 samples from Estonia, dated to c. 710–830 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Saaremaa EVA (Medieval), Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval) and Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I1 (9), I1a (8) and N1a (7); its mtDNA haplogroups include H10e (2), H1a (2), H1b (2) and H2a (2).

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 710–830 CE
Country
Estonia
Sampled near
Salme 58.17, 22.25
Samples
31
Catalogue
Estonia_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
#PopulationDistance
1Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)Saaremaa_EVA0.43
2Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval)Viking_Age_Sigtuna1.36
3Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman1.38
4Norway (Iron Age)Norway_IA1.67
5Viking (Medieval, Sweden)Sweden_Viking1.69
6Ladoga VA (Medieval)Ladoga_VA1.71
7Zohor Germanic Roman (Antiquity, Slovakia)Slovakia_Zohor_Germanic_Roman1.87
8Mid VA (Medieval)Mid_VA1.88
9Denmark (Iron Age)Denmark_IA1.92
10Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking1.92
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SwedishSwedish1.15
2NorwegianNorwegian2.19
3IcelandicIcelandic2.22
4DanishDanish2.24
5German HamburgGerman_Hamburg2.72
6OrcadianOrcadian3.30
7DutchDutch3.35
8ShetlandicShetlandic3.39
9ScottishScottish3.39
10IrishIrish3.57

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

31 men with a call

mtDNA

31 individuals with a call

Individuals 31

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

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
VK480_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-S6285U4a2a1
VK481_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a N-L550T2a1a
VK482_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1a10b1b I-Y18311H1a
VK483_noUDG.SGM674-877 calCESalmeI1a2a1a1d1a1a I-Y3000H16
VK484_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-M417H6a1a
VK486_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1b1a2b3a R-YP235U4a2a
VK487_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-Z283H17a2
VK488_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1a1a1b4 I-FTB71820H5c
VK489_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a7a3a N-Y21546T2e1
VK491_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1 I1H6a1a
VK492_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121H1b5
VK493_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-M417H2a2a1
VK495_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121H1b
VK496_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1 I1H1a
VK498_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-M417H1q
VK504_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1 N-Z4908H28a
VK505_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a N-Y60725J1b1a1b
VK506_noUDG.SGM652-775 calCESalmeI1a7 I-BY72774J1c2
VK507_noUDG.SGM706-945 calCESalmeI1a2a1a1a I-FGC65549HV6
VK508_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a7a N-Y10932J1c5
VK509_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121H1n
VK510_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121H10e
VK511_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1a1b1a1e I-Y3662T2a1a
VK512_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a7a3a N-Y21546H2a2b1
VK549_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1a1b1a1 I-P109T2b5a
VK550_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a N-L1025V
VK551_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-Z283J2a1a1a2
VK552_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121H10e
VK553_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121K1c1h
VK554_noUDG.SGM705-949 calCESalmeI1 I-L121W6a
VK555_noUDG.SGM700-800 CESalmeI1a2a1a1d1 I-Z73U3b1b