Ancient population · Medieval

Friesland Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands)

Name: Friesland Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands) (Netherlands_Friesland_Saxon_Medieval)
Creator: Genoplot

Netherlands_Friesland_Saxon_Medieval

Friesland Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Netherlands_Friesland_Saxon_Medieval), with 2 samples from Netherlands, dated to c. 530–550 CE.

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

Its mtDNA haplogroups include H5a and U4a.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 530–550 CE
Country: Netherlands
Sampled near: Midlum 53.18, 5.44
Samples: 2
Published in: GretzingerSchiffelsNature2022
Catalogue: Netherlands_Friesland_Saxon_Medieval
Netherlands_Friesland_Saxon_Medieval.SG variant
Netherlands_Friesland_Saxon_Medieval_oEastMed.SG outliers

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	North VA (Medieval)`North_VA`	1.97
2	Saxon (Early Medieval, England)`England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon`	1.97
3	Saxon (Medieval, England)`England_Saxon`	1.97
4	Viking (Medieval, Norway)`Norway_Viking`	2.14
5	Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)`Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman`	2.14
6	Viking (Medieval, Iceland)`Iceland_Viking`	2.14
7	Pre Christian (Iceland)`Iceland_Pre_Christian`	2.20
8	Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval)`Viking_Age_Pre_Christian`	2.25
9	Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark)`Denmark_EarlyViking`	2.26
10	Groningen Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands)`Netherlands_Groningen_Saxon_Medieval`	2.27

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Icelandic`Icelandic`	1.77
2	Norwegian`Norwegian`	1.86
3	Danish`Danish`	2.06
4	Swedish`Swedish`	2.30
5	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	2.42
6	Irish`Irish`	2.54
7	Scottish`Scottish`	2.65
8	Orcadian`Orcadian`	2.67
9	Dutch`Dutch`	2.92
10	English`English`	2.98

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

H5a1
U4a1a

Individuals 4

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.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	mtDNA
`MDM001.A`	`Netherlands_Friesland_Saxon_Medieval`	F	400-700 CE	Midlum	H5a1
`MDM005.SG`	`Netherlands_Friesland_Saxon_Medieval.SG`	F	431-635 calCE	Midlum	U4a1a
`MDM002.SG` outlier	`Netherlands_Friesland_Saxon_Medieval_oEastMed.SG`	F	420-565 calCE	Midlum	J1c3
`MDM006.SG` outlier	`Netherlands_Friesland_Saxon_Medieval_oEastMed.SG`	F	396-539 calCE	Midlum	H1