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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 signal corresponding to the Danelaw, the regi...
traces of the Viking diaspora are largely restricted to occasional graves, as at Cnoc nan Gall in the Inner Hebrides, Swordle Bay in western Scotland, or Cumwitton in Cumbria (Becket et al.2013; Halstad-McGuire2010; Harris et al.2017; Harrison2015; Paterson et al.2014). Here,...
Ireland, Orkneys and Faroe Islands and Iceland. A Norwegian chieftain, Ingolfur Arnarson brought his family to Iceland in 874, settling on the southwest peninsula in a place he called Reykjavik or Cove of Smoke. Many other families from Norway, Scotland and Ireland followed. ...
No. Around the 830s AD, Sigurd the Mighty, a Viking that ruled over Orkney, went into battle against Máel Brigte in Scotland, and even though Sigurd managed to cut off his foe's head, he soon perished. The story goes that after Sigurd decapitated his enemy, he tied his head to the...
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