Ancient population · Medieval

VA (Medieval, Faroes)

Faroes_VA

VA (Medieval, Faroes) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Faroes_VA), with 1 sample from Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, dated to c. 1050 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Viking (Medieval, Faroes), Czech (Early–Middle Bronze Age) and Roman (Antiquity, England); the nearest living populations are Danish, Norwegian and Dutch.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is J1b.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1050 CE
Origin
Suðuroy, Faroe Islands
Sampled near
Hvalba 61.60, -6.96
Samples
1
Catalogue
Faroes_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, Faroes)Faroes_Viking2.34
2Czech (Early–Middle Bronze Age)Czech_EMBA3.61
3Roman (Antiquity, England)England_Roman3.76
4Halberstadt (Late Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_LBA_Halberstadt3.84
5Sweden (Late Neolithic) · SWE_LNSWE_LN3.98
6Mediumhigh EEF (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_C_EBA_mediumhighEEF4.11
7Viking (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Viking4.12
8Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, France)France_BellBeaker4.12
9Sweden (Late Neolithic) · Sweden_LNSweden_LN4.13
10Scorton Anglian (Medieval, England)England_Scorton_Anglian4.18
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1DanishDanish5.05
2NorwegianNorwegian5.08
3DutchDutch5.10
4AfrikanerAfrikaner5.18
5SwedishSwedish5.32
6German HamburgGerman_Hamburg5.34
7WelshWelsh5.36
8IcelandicIcelandic5.45
9GermanGerman5.45
10OrcadianOrcadian5.46

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
VK24M1000-1100 CEHvalbaR1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a1a1a1 R-M222J1b1a1a