Ancient population · Medieval

Mid VA (Medieval)

Mid_VA

Mid VA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mid_VA), with 2 samples from Trøndelag, Norway, dated to c. 850–950 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Saaremaa EVA (Medieval), Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia) and Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include A12a and H6a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 850–950 CE
Country
Norway
Origin
Trøndelag, Norway
Sampled near
Nord-Trøndelag 63.57, 10.48
Sites
Nord-Trøndelag
Østråt
Samples
2
Catalogue
Mid_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
1Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)Saaremaa_EVA1.82
2Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)Estonia_EarlyViking1.88
3Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval)Viking_Age_Sigtuna1.99
4Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland)Greenland_EarlyNorse2.00
5Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking2.10
6Sealand EVA (Medieval)Sealand_EVA2.10
7Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA2.11
8Denmark (Iron Age)Denmark_IA2.12
9Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman2.15
10Ladoga VA (Medieval)Ladoga_VA2.19
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SwedishSwedish1.88
2NorwegianNorwegian2.24
3IcelandicIcelandic2.29
4DanishDanish2.49
5OrcadianOrcadian2.96
6German HamburgGerman_Hamburg3.02
7ScottishScottish3.12
8DutchDutch3.26
9IrishIrish3.32
10ShetlandicShetlandic3.33

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
VK516M900-1000 CEØstråtR1a1a1b1a3a2b2 R-CTS8746H6a1a
VK548F800-900 CENord-TrøndelagA12a