Ancient population · Medieval

Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland)

Greenland_EarlyNorse

Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Greenland_EarlyNorse), with 7 samples from Greenland, dated to c. 950–1050 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Greenland E VA (Medieval), EM (Faroes) and Early Modern (Faroes); the nearest living populations are Icelandic, Norwegian and Orcadian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1a (2), I1 and I1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c (2), T2a (2), H1ao and H4a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 950–1050 CE
Country
Greenland
Sampled near
64 61.07, -45.53
Sites
64 (4)
029a (3)
Samples
7
Catalogue
Greenland_EarlyNorse.SG variant
Greenland_EarlyNorse_o1.SG outliers

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
1Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA0.86
2EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM1.34
3Early Modern (Faroes)Faroes_EarlyModern1.55
4Hringsdalur VA (Medieval)Hringsdalur_VA1.65
5Collegno (Medieval)Collegno_MA1.75
6Hofstadir VA (Medieval)Hofstadir_VA1.78
7Saxon (Medieval, England)England_Saxon1.80
8Sealand EVA (Medieval)Sealand_EVA1.81
9Skara VA (Medieval)Skara_VA1.82
10Baiuvaric (Medieval)MA_Baiuvaric1.86
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1IcelandicIcelandic1.53
2NorwegianNorwegian1.57
3OrcadianOrcadian1.70
4DanishDanish1.77
5ScottishScottish1.84
6IrishIrish2.14
7EnglishEnglish2.15
8SwedishSwedish2.20
9DutchDutch2.22
10English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall2.29

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

mtDNA

7 individuals with a call

Individuals 8

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
VK1_noUDG.SGGreenland_EarlyNorse.SGF900-1100 CE64J1c3g
VK183_noUDG.SGGreenland_EarlyNorse.SGM900-1200 CE029aI1 I-L121T2b21
VK184_noUDG.SGGreenland_EarlyNorse.SGM900-1200 CE029aR1a1a1 R-M417H4a1a4b
VK186_noUDG.SGGreenland_EarlyNorse.SGM900-1200 CE64I1a1a4a1a1b1 I-Y79817H1ao
VK187_noUDG.SGGreenland_EarlyNorse.SGF891-1020 calCE64T2a1a
VK513_noUDG.SGGreenland_EarlyNorse.SGM900-1200 CE029aR1a1a1a1d1a R-S2886J1c1b
VK6_noUDG.SGGreenland_EarlyNorse.SGF900-1100 CE64T2a1a
VK179_noUDG.SG outlierGreenland_EarlyNorse_o1.SGM900-1200 CE029aI1a1a3a I-Y11887K1a3a