Biomolecular analysis of teeth of people buried on the island of Oland, Sweden – known for its impressive Viking remains – was found to contain ancestry from Central Europe and Britain.

This insinuates that people of Scandinavian ancestry were in Britain before the Anglo-Saxon period (around 400 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.) and Viking period (around 800 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.). Genetic analysis ...

The Vikings first arrived in Britain in 793 AD ... researchers used a process called Twigstats, which can recreate ancestry by looking at how many genetic mutations are shared between individuals.

This highlights that there were people with Scandinavian ancestry in Britain earlier than the Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods which started in the 5th century AD. Germanic-speaking people move north ...

This highlights that there were people with Scandinavian ancestry in Britain earlier than the Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods which started in the 5th century AD. Germanic-speaking people move ...

Luke Lessei credits his never-give-up attitude to his father, his grandfather, and their Viking ancestors. 'The Chef' climbed back into the win column in a big way at ONE Fight Night 27, scoring a ...

Taken together, Twigstats enabled fine-scale quantitative modeling of ancestral populations and revealed ancestry changes affecting central and northern Europe during the Iron, Roman, and Viking ages.