Viking Names: Alliteration and Variation Many Viking parents would use two other naming conventions when giving their children Viking names. One was alliteration. The same sound was used in the beginning of each child’s name: Olaf, Olief, Olvir, Ospak, Ottar, for example. Another principle ...
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The influence of Viking-Age migrants to the British Isles is obvious in archaeological and place-names evidence, but their demographic impact has been unclear. Autosomal genetic analyses support Norse Viking contributions to parts of Britain, but show no
Strontium and light stable isotopes also suggest a Scandinavian origin of at least some of the c. 37 individuals, mostly young adult males, found in a mass burial at the grounds of St. John’s College, Oxford (Pollard et al.2012). It has been suggested that the deceased represent an uns...