Ancient population · Medieval

Hringsdalur VA (Medieval)

Hringsdalur_VA

Hringsdalur VA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Hringsdalur_VA), with 2 samples from Westfjords, Iceland, dated to c. 950 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Pre Christian (Iceland), Greenland E VA (Medieval) and Sealand VA (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H and H3g.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 950 CE
Country
Iceland
Origin
Westfjords, Iceland
Sampled near
Hringsdalur 65.71, -23.75
Samples
2
Catalogue
Hringsdalur_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
1Pre Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Pre_Christian1.54
2Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA1.54
3Sealand VA (Medieval)Sealand_VA1.59
4Skara VA (Medieval)Skara_VA1.61
5Sealand EVA (Medieval)Sealand_EVA1.65
6Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland)Greenland_EarlyNorse1.65
7Viking (Medieval, Iceland)Iceland_Viking1.66
8England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval1.73
9EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM1.73
10Dorset VA (Medieval, England)England_Dorset_VA1.73
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NorwegianNorwegian1.70
2DanishDanish1.72
3IcelandicIcelandic1.82
4OrcadianOrcadian1.85
5ScottishScottish1.95
6DutchDutch2.01
7IrishIrish2.14
8EnglishEnglish2.19
9WelshWelsh2.26
10SwedishSwedish2.32

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man 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
VK127M900-1000 CEHringsdalurR1a1a1b1a3a2b1a R-Y94575H3g1b
VK128F900-1000 CEHringsdalurH