Ancient population · Medieval

Viking (Medieval, Russia)

Russia_Viking

Viking (Medieval, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Viking), with 20 samples from Russia, dated to c. 900–1100 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ladoga VA (Medieval), Viking (Medieval, Sweden) and Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Swedish, German Hamburg and Czech.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I1 (6), I1a (3) and R1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c (2), U5a (2), X2b (2) and H13a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 900–1100 CE
Country
Russia
Sampled near
Staraya-Ladoga 58.59, 31.99
Sites
Staraya-Ladoga (14)
Gnezdovo (5)
Pskov
Samples
20
Catalogue
Russia_Viking.SG variant
Russia_Viking_o.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
#PopulationDistance
1Ladoga VA (Medieval)Ladoga_VA1.09
2Viking (Medieval, Sweden)Sweden_Viking1.47
3Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval)Viking_Age_Sigtuna1.57
4Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)Saaremaa_EVA2.05
5Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)Estonia_EarlyViking2.26
6Gnezdovo VA (Medieval)Gnezdovo_VA2.31
7Uppsala VA (Medieval)Uppsala_VA2.33
8Skara VA (Medieval)Skara_VA2.34
9Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman2.36
10Zealand Saxon (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_Zealand_Saxon_Medieval2.41
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SwedishSwedish1.77
2German HamburgGerman_Hamburg2.33
3CzechCzech2.82
4DanishDanish2.87
5NorwegianNorwegian2.89
6Polish SilesianPolish_Silesian3.14
7SlovakianSlovakian3.16
8German EastGerman_East3.20
9IcelandicIcelandic3.33
10DutchDutch3.43

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

16 men with a call

mtDNA

20 individuals with a call

Individuals 23

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
VK14_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaI1 I1J1c1a
VK15_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGF900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaJ1b1a1
VK159_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1100 CEPskovR1b1a1b1a1a2c1a3 R-BY60917U2e2a1d
VK16_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaI1a1b1a1 I-P109X2b4
VK17_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaT1a1a1 T-Y138678U5a2a1b
VK19_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGF900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaJ1c
VK20_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM1000-1100 CEStaraya-LadogaI1 I1H6c
VK218_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaR1b1a1b1a1a R-L151H5
VK219_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1100 CEStaraya-LadogaI1 I-L121T2b6a
VK220_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaI1a1b1a4a I-Z74J2b1a
VK221_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM800-1000 CEStaraya-LadogaI1 I-L121K1d
VK223_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1100 CEGnezdovoI1a3a1 I-FT401330H13a1a1c
VK224_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1100 CEGnezdovoN1a1a1a1a1a1a7a3 N-BY88300H7a1
VK23_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaI IU4a1a
VK254_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGF900-1100 CEGnezdovoHV0a1
VK272_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGF900-1100 CEGnezdovoK1b2b
VK273_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1100 CEGnezdovoR1b1a1b1a1a2b1c2 R-Y45264U5a2a1b1
VK408_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaR1a1a1b1a1a R-M458H74
VK409_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaI1 I-L121H3h
VK410_noUDG.SGRussia_Viking.SGM1000-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaI1 I1X2b
VK160_noUDG.SG outlierRussia_Viking_o.SGM900-1300 CEKurevanikhaR1a1a1b1a1a1c1 R-L1029C4a1a
VK18_noUDG.SG outlierRussia_Viking_o.SGM900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaR1a1a1b1a3a4 R-Y69949H1b1
VK21_noUDG.SG outlierRussia_Viking_o.SGF900-1200 CEStaraya-LadogaH5a1