Ancient population · Medieval

Eyrephort VA (Medieval)

Eyrephort_VA

Eyrephort VA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Eyrephort_VA), with 1 sample from Connacht, Ireland, dated to c. 850 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Viking (Medieval, Ireland), Sweden (Late Neolithic) · SWE_LN and Sweden (Late Neolithic) · Sweden_LN; the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is I2.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 850 CE
Country
Ireland
Origin
Connacht, Ireland
Sampled near
Eyrephort 53.51, -10.13
Samples
1
Catalogue
Eyrephort_VA

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
1Viking (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Viking2.32
2Sweden (Late Neolithic) · SWE_LNSWE_LN2.41
3Sweden (Late Neolithic) · Sweden_LNSweden_LN2.44
4Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, France)France_BellBeaker2.44
5Halberstadt (Late Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_LBA_Halberstadt2.48
6Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA2.51
7Early Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Early_Christian2.58
8South VA (Medieval)South_VA2.60
9Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking2.66
10Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval)Viking_Age_Pre_Christian2.67
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NorwegianNorwegian3.21
2SwedishSwedish3.37
3DanishDanish3.46
4DutchDutch3.75
5IcelandicIcelandic3.80
6German HamburgGerman_Hamburg3.92
7OrcadianOrcadian4.01
8ScottishScottish4.01
9WelshWelsh4.03
10ShetlandicShetlandic4.08

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 1

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
VK543M800-900 CEEyrephortR1a1a1a1d1a R-S2886I2