Ancient population · Medieval

Late Norse (Medieval, Greenland)

Greenland_LateNorse

Late Norse (Medieval, Greenland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Greenland_LateNorse), with 2 samples from Greenland, dated to c. 1020–1120 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland), Scotland (Middle Iron Age) and Greenland E VA (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Icelandic, Orcadian and Norwegian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I1a and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H54 and K1a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1020–1120 CE
Country
Greenland
Sampled near
149 62.40, -47.72
Sites
149
V051
Samples
2
Catalogue
Greenland_LateNorse.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
1Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland)Greenland_EarlyNorse2.31
2Scotland (Middle Iron Age)Scotland_MIA2.33
3Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA2.40
4EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM2.44
5Sweden (Iron Age) · Sweden_IASweden_IA2.50
6Sweden (Iron Age) · SWE_IASWE_IA2.53
7Sealand (Iron Age)Sealand_IA2.54
8Early Modern (Faroes)Faroes_EarlyModern2.58
9Scotland (Late Bronze Age)Scotland_LBA2.64
10Mid VA (Medieval)Mid_VA2.67
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1IcelandicIcelandic2.80
2OrcadianOrcadian2.91
3NorwegianNorwegian2.92
4DanishDanish3.01
5ScottishScottish3.04
6IrishIrish3.16
7ShetlandicShetlandic3.17
8EnglishEnglish3.32
9SwedishSwedish3.34
10English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall3.48

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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
VK190_noUDG.SGM1035-1211 calCE149I1a5a I-FGC15549K1a
VK75_noUDG.SGM893-1155 calCEV051R1b1a1b1a1a R-Y141037H54