Ancient population · Medieval

Viking (Medieval, Ireland)

Name: Viking (Medieval, Ireland) (Ireland_Viking)
Creator: Genoplot

Ireland_Viking

Viking (Medieval, Ireland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ireland_Viking), with 3 samples from Ireland, dated to c. 770–850 CE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1a and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1bb, H24a and I2.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 770–850 CE
Country: Ireland
Sampled near: Eyrephort 53.41, -7.57
Sites: Eyrephort
Finglas
Ship Street Great
Samples: 3
Published in: MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
Catalogue: Ireland_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
#	Population	Distance
1	Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval)`Viking_Age_Pre_Christian`	1.53
2	North VA (Medieval)`North_VA`	1.59
3	Viking (Medieval, England)`England_Viking`	1.59
4	Pre Christian (Iceland)`Iceland_Pre_Christian`	1.69
5	Viking (Medieval, Norway)`Norway_Viking`	1.71
6	Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)`Scotland_Orkney_MBA`	1.73
7	Saxon (Early Medieval, England)`England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon`	1.74
8	Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark)`Denmark_EarlyViking`	1.75
9	South VA (Medieval)`South_VA`	1.76
10	Scorton Anglian (Medieval, England)`England_Scorton_Anglian`	1.76

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Norwegian`Norwegian`	2.01
2	Danish`Danish`	2.05
3	Icelandic`Icelandic`	2.44
4	Dutch`Dutch`	2.46
5	Irish`Irish`	2.61
6	Scottish`Scottish`	2.64
7	Swedish`Swedish`	2.67
8	Orcadian`Orcadian`	2.68
9	Welsh`Welsh`	2.69
10	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	2.71

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1a1a1a1d1a R-S2886
R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a1a1a1 R-M222

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`VK543_noUDG.SG`	M	800-900 CE	Eyrephort	R1a1a1a1d1a R-S2886	I2
`VK544_noUDG.SG`	F	800-900 CE	Finglas		H24a
`VK545_noUDG.SG`	M	665-865 calCE	Ship Street Great	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a1a1a1 R-M222	H1bb