Ancient population · Medieval
North VA (Medieval)
North_VA
North VA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (North_VA), with 12 samples from Nordland, Norway, dated to c. 750–1150 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Viking (Medieval, Norway), South VA (Medieval) and Viking (Medieval, England); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I1a (4), I1 and N1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include U5b (2), H1as, H52 and H7.
- Period
- Medieval
- Date
- c. 750–1150 CE
- Country
- Norway
- Origin
- Nordland, Norway
- Sampled near
- Rønvik nedre 67.64, 14.91
- Sites
- Rønvik nedre (2)
Hov
Leines
Rønvik Øvre
Sørherøy
and 6 more - Samples
- 12
- Published in
- MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
- Catalogue
North_VANorth_VA_o1outliersNorth_VA_o2outliers
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking | 0.57 |
| 2 | South VA (Medieval)South_VA | 1.05 |
| 3 | Viking (Medieval, England)England_Viking | 1.18 |
| 4 | Pre Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Pre_Christian | 1.30 |
| 5 | Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_EarlyViking | 1.30 |
| 6 | Saxon (Early Medieval, England)England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon | 1.35 |
| 7 | Viking (Medieval, Iceland)Iceland_Viking | 1.35 |
| 8 | Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval)Viking_Age_Pre_Christian | 1.40 |
| 9 | Saxon (Medieval, England)England_Saxon | 1.41 |
| 10 | Oxford VA (Medieval, England)England_Oxford_VA | 1.49 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NorwegianNorwegian | 1.22 |
| 2 | SwedishSwedish | 1.52 |
| 3 | DanishDanish | 1.53 |
| 4 | IcelandicIcelandic | 1.72 |
| 5 | DutchDutch | 2.38 |
| 6 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 2.38 |
| 7 | ScottishScottish | 2.41 |
| 8 | IrishIrish | 2.43 |
| 9 | OrcadianOrcadian | 2.45 |
| 10 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 2.63 |
Haplogroups
Y-DNA
8 men with a call
- I1 I-L121
- I1a1b1a4a2 I-L813
- I1a1b1a4a2a I-FT8660
- I1a2a1 I-S9939
- I1a2a1a1d1a1a I-Y3000
- N1a1a1a1a1a1a4 N-BY158994
- R1a1a1 R-M417
- R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a4d1 R-BY135243
Individuals 14
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 | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
VK388 | North_VA | M | 700-1600 CE | Ytterstad | I1 I-L121 | J1c5 |
VK419 | North_VA | M | 500-1000 CE | Rønvik Øvre | N1a1a1a1a1a1a4 N-BY158994 | U5b1b1g1 |
VK514 | North_VA | M | 500-1000 CE | Vikran Nordre | R1a1a1 R-M417 | K2b1a1 |
VK515 | North_VA | M | 900-1000 CE | Rønvik nedre | I1a2a1 I-S9939 | H52 |
VK520 | North_VA | F | 900-1000 CE | Tussøy, | U5b2a1a2 | |
VK524 | North_VA | M | 900-1000 CE | Tommeidet | I1a2a1a1d1a1a I-Y3000 | HV0a1 |
VK525 | North_VA | F | 800-900 CE | Hov | U5a1a2a | |
VK526 | North_VA | F | 800-900 CE | Sørherøy | J2b1a3 | |
VK528 | North_VA | M | 700-900 CE | Trygstad i Bø | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a4d1 R-BY135243 | K1a4a1b |
VK529 | North_VA | M | 700-900 CE | Leines | I1a1b1a4a2 I-L813 | H7 |
VK530 | North_VA | F | 900-1000 CE | Rønvik nedre | H1as | |
VK547 | North_VA | M | 700-1100 CE | Stokke | I1a1b1a4a2a I-FT8660 | V |
VK518 outlier | North_VA_o1 | F | 800-900 CE | Nordland, | U5b1b1a | |
VK519 outlier | North_VA_o2 | M | 500-1000 CE | Steigen Mellem | I1a1b1a2 I-Y109160 | HV0a1 |