Ancient population · Medieval
Viking (Medieval, Scotland)
Scotland_Viking
Viking (Medieval, Scotland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_Viking), with 4 samples from United Kingdom, dated to c. 360–1020 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Orkney VA (Medieval, Scotland), Roman (Iron Age, England) and EM (Faroes); the nearest living populations are Irish, Scottish and Orcadian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include H1ai, H1m, H4a and U4b.
- Period
- Medieval
- Date
- c. 360–1020 CE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Brough Road Birsay 59.08, -3.18
- Sites
- Brough Road Birsay (2)
Buckquoy
Newark Deerness - Samples
- 4
- Published in
- AkbariReichNature2026
MargaryanWillerslevNature2020 - Catalogue
Scotland_Viking.SGvariantScotland_Viking_o.SGoutliers
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 | Orkney VA (Medieval, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_VA | 0.96 |
| 2 | Roman (Iron Age, England)England_IA_Roman | 1.56 |
| 3 | EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM | 1.57 |
| 4 | Early Modern (Faroes)Faroes_EarlyModern | 1.58 |
| 5 | Scotland (Late Iron Age)Scotland_LIA | 1.59 |
| 6 | Scotland (Late Bronze Age)Scotland_LBA | 1.60 |
| 7 | Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman | 1.61 |
| 8 | England (Iron Age)England_IA | 1.69 |
| 9 | England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval | 1.77 |
| 10 | Collegno (Medieval)Collegno_MA | 1.81 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IrishIrish | 1.24 |
| 2 | ScottishScottish | 1.27 |
| 3 | OrcadianOrcadian | 1.37 |
| 4 | EnglishEnglish | 1.60 |
| 5 | English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall | 1.62 |
| 6 | WelshWelsh | 1.77 |
| 7 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 1.95 |
| 8 | IcelandicIcelandic | 1.95 |
| 9 | DutchDutch | 2.08 |
| 10 | NorwegianNorwegian | 2.09 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
VK202_noUDG.SG | Scotland_Viking.SG | M | 900-1000 CE | Buckquoy | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a3a2 R-CTS4466 | H1ai1 |
VK203_noUDG.SG | Scotland_Viking.SG | M | 54-668 CE [union of two dates: | Brough Road Birsay | R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-Z258 | H4a1a1a1a1 |
VK204_noUDG.SG | Scotland_Viking.SG | M | 900-1000 CE | Newark Deerness | R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151 | H1m |
VK207_noUDG.SG | Scotland_Viking.SG | F | 880-1160 calCE | Brough Road Birsay | U4b1b1 | |
VK201_noUDG.SG outlier | Scotland_Viking_o.SG | M | 415-571 calCE | Buckquoy | I2a1b1a1a1 I-Y3709 | H3k1a |
VK205_noUDG.SG outlier | Scotland_Viking_o.SG | M | 850-1000 CE | Newark Deerness | R1a1a1b1a3a1a3b2 R-S6790 | H3 |