Medical News
Humans
30 July 2019
TV programme Vikings depicts the exploits of raiding warriorsAF archive / Alamy
By Michael MarshallThe Vikings weren’t all Nordic natives. They comprised multiple distinct groups of different peoples, according to a major study of ancient DNA.
“Viking genetics and Viking ancestry is used quite a lot in extremist right-wing circles,” says Cat Jarman at the University of Bristol in the UK, who wasn’t involved in the study. Many white supremacists identify with a “very pure Viking race of just people from Scandinavia, who had no influence from anywhere else”.
In fact, the DNA evidence …
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