Ancient population · Medieval

Viking (Medieval, Iceland)

Iceland_Viking

Viking (Medieval, Iceland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Iceland_Viking), with 13 samples from Iceland, dated to c. 950–1100 CE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1a (3), R1b (3) and I1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c (2), U5b (2), H and H10.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 950–1100 CE
Country
Iceland
Sampled near
Hofstadir 65.64, -18.19
Sites
Hofstadir (10)
Hringsdalur (2)
Ingiridarstadir
Samples
13
Catalogue
Iceland_Viking.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
1Pre Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Pre_Christian0.96
2Viking (Medieval, England)England_Viking0.98
3Hofstadir VA (Medieval)Hofstadir_VA1.11
4Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_EarlyViking1.18
5Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking1.19
6Saxon (Early Medieval, England)England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon1.22
7England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval1.24
8Saxon (Medieval, England)England_Saxon1.33
9Skara VA (Medieval)Skara_VA1.33
10Oxford VA (Medieval, England)England_Oxford_VA1.34
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NorwegianNorwegian0.93
2DanishDanish1.43
3IcelandicIcelandic1.50
4SwedishSwedish1.82
5ScottishScottish1.82
6OrcadianOrcadian1.83
7DutchDutch1.88
8IrishIrish1.91
9EnglishEnglish2.14
10WelshWelsh2.17

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

8 men with a call

mtDNA

13 individuals with a call

Individuals 13

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
VK101_noUDG.SGM900-1300 CEHofstadirR1b1a1b1a1a2d1a1 R-A6291U5b1g
VK102_noUDG.SGM900-1300 CEHofstadirR1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-BY168917J1c3f
VK122_noUDG.SGF900-1300 CEHofstadirH24a
VK123_noUDG.SGM900-1300 CEHofstadirR2 R-Y130994J1c9
VK127_noUDG.SGM900-1000 CEHringsdalurR1a1a1b1a3a2b1a R-Y94575H3g1b
VK128_noUDG.SGF900-1000 CEHringsdalurH
VK129_noUDG.SGM900-1000 CEIngiridarstadirR1a1a1 R-Z283U5b1b1a
VK225_noUDG.SGM900-1300 CEHofstadirR1a1a1 R-Y195965H3v
VK227_noUDG.SGF900-1300 CEHofstadirK1b2a2
VK230_noUDG.SGF900-1300 CEHofstadirH10
VK95_noUDG.SGM900-1300 CEHofstadirR1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a1a1a1 R-M222H6a1a3a
VK98_noUDG.SGM900-1300 CEHofstadirI1a1b1a4a2 I-L813T2b3b
VK99_noUDG.SGF900-1300 CEHofstadirI2a1