Ancient population · Medieval

Hofstadir VA (Medieval)

Hofstadir_VA

Hofstadir VA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Hofstadir_VA), with 8 samples from Northeastern Region, Iceland, dated to c. 1100 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Viking (Medieval, Iceland), Dorset VA (Medieval, England) and Viking (Medieval, England); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Danish and Orcadian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (3), I1a (2) and R2; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c (2), H10, H6a and I2a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1100 CE
Country
Iceland
Origin
Northeastern Region, Iceland
Sampled near
Hofstadir 65.61, -17.16
Samples
8
Catalogue
Hofstadir_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, Iceland)Iceland_Viking1.11
2Dorset VA (Medieval, England)England_Dorset_VA1.16
3Viking (Medieval, England)England_Viking1.20
4England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval1.36
5Oxford VA (Medieval, England)England_Oxford_VA1.40
6Sealand EVA (Medieval)Sealand_EVA1.41
7Pre Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Pre_Christian1.41
8Schleswig Saxon LMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_Schleswig_Saxon_LMedieval1.43
9EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM1.44
10Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman1.45
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NorwegianNorwegian1.17
2DanishDanish1.58
3OrcadianOrcadian1.63
4ScottishScottish1.64
5DutchDutch1.65
6IcelandicIcelandic1.75
7IrishIrish1.81
8ShetlandicShetlandic1.88
9WelshWelsh2.00
10EnglishEnglish2.02

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

6 men with a call

mtDNA

8 individuals with a call

Individuals 13

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
VK101M900-1300 CEHofstadirR1b1a1b1a1a2d1a1 R-A6291U5b1g
VK102M900-1300 CEHofstadirR1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-BY168917J1c3f
VK110M900-1300 CEHofstadirI1a1b1a1d3b I-BY35255H10
VK123M900-1300 CEHofstadirR2 R-Y130994J1c9
VK227F900-1300 CEHofstadirK1b2a2
VK95M900-1300 CEHofstadirR1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a1a1a1 R-M222H6a1a3a
VK98M900-1300 CEHofstadirI1a1b1a4a2 I-L813T2b3b
VK99F900-1300 CEHofstadirI2a1
VK111 outlierF900-1300 CEHofstadirH10
VK122 outlierF900-1300 CEHofstadirH24a
VK225 outlierM900-1300 CEHofstadirR1a1a1 R-Y195965H3v
VK228 outlierF900-1300 CEHofstadirT2b4
VK230 outlierF900-1300 CEHofstadirH10