Ancient population · Medieval
Viking (Medieval, Faroes)
Faroes_Viking
Viking (Medieval, Faroes) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Faroes_Viking), with 1 sample from Faroe Islands, dated to c. 1050 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to VA (Medieval, Faroes), Czech (Early–Middle Bronze Age) and Roman (Antiquity, England); the nearest living populations are Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is J1b.
- Period
- Medieval
- Date
- c. 1050 CE
- Country
- Faroe Islands
- Sampled near
- Hvalba 61.60, -6.96
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
- Catalogue
Faroes_Viking.SGvariant
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | VA (Medieval, Faroes)Faroes_VA | 2.34 |
| 2 | Czech (Early–Middle Bronze Age)Czech_EMBA | 3.51 |
| 3 | Roman (Antiquity, England)England_Roman | 3.77 |
| 4 | Halberstadt (Late Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_LBA_Halberstadt | 4.02 |
| 5 | Viking (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Viking | 4.03 |
| 6 | Scorton Anglian (Medieval, England)England_Scorton_Anglian | 4.04 |
| 7 | Early Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Early_Christian | 4.04 |
| 8 | EMedieval Alemanic (Medieval, Germany)Germany_EMedieval_Alemanic | 4.14 |
| 9 | Sweden (Late Neolithic) · SWE_LNSWE_LN | 4.17 |
| 10 | Mediumhigh EEF (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_C_EBA_mediumhighEEF | 4.18 |
Haplogroups
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
VK24_noUDG.SG | M | 1000-1100 CE | Hvalba | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a1a1a1 R-M222 | J1b1a1a |