I love the charts. But they don't show how they they were when the vikings were. In simpler terms where do they come from first? Where dis the Russian RUS vikings come from? So you give good grasp but you need to give a good graph of what it used to be 200 years ago and what it is today. Because people think they're related to some people today because if I can ancestry but literally they came from a different part of the world 500 years ago. And did you mention if the types that we find are from paternal or maternal lineage? I know that they had slaves that were also white could you make a video literally saying that white people owned white slaves? Because, you know all white people in the United States are bad people because they kept black people as slaves. The problem is they were just for sale at a cheap rate across a smaller Ocean than any other ocean to cross, so yes we kept black slaves however Norwegians icelanders greenlanders Vikings they all kept white slaves so why doesn't anyone talk about that and why haven't they quote unquote released the records of people who were stolen from other countries because obviously Vikings did that and they were white people I would subscribe and share and do everything I could do if you made a video about white people selling slaves from other white people that would be really freaking awesome because we sound like idiots when we say it but literally it's the truth
At 9:19 the group I1 is clustered in east Norway and central Sweden, while the "Norwegian" vikings generally would be settled in around the fjords from the south west of Norway where R1b is the male majority. Looking at the Orkney's and Irish composition it is likely the vikings from the west of Norway originally arrived from Ireland pre viking time. This theory also correlates with the low volume of I1 found in established viking temporarily settlements where this particular viking group would have evolved through such as Dublin, York, Iceland, Normandy etc. Also it is impossible that a slave group become a major branch, so I think it's sad that the Irish/Celtic connection seems to be overlocked completely. Don't forget the Irish Celts had similar boats as the Norse drakkar before viking times.
@@marcoschlaff813 I believe so. The drakkars was used for many thousands years around Ireland before a sail on a boat was dreamt about in Norway. I1 is for sure not a big part of the Norwegian vikings, even tho often erroneously referred to as such
@@drgreengood The Scando-Germanic people/Insular Germanics/Scandinavians were likely "Germanized" Saami-like people both culturally and linguistically.. The thing is Germanic language didn't originate in Scandinavian peninsula and the haplogroups carried by both South Germanics and North Germanics(Insular Scando-Germanics) are different.. I'm Dutch and in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark.. we carry an overwhelmingly R1B haplogroup(and its subclade variants).. and genetically were closely related to the Britons and other Insular Celts(I believe they also got "Celticized" linguistically and culturally) because.. we're both carrying the R1B and actually the difference between Briton and Anglo-Saxon genetics is just minimal which means both are closely related but.. the South Germanics and North Germanics carrying a visible difference including the different haplogroups..
There was a joke I heard some years ago," why are all the Scandinavian women so beautiful!?!" The reply for us was:" The Vikings didn't bring back any ugly ones" Bad taste, but still kind of funny
I lived in Iceland for quite a few years, and their genetic make up is interesting. The men have a Norse genetic inheritance on the Y Chromosome, whilst the women have a mostly Celtic inheritance on the X chromosome. It is genetic evidence of the Icelanders raiding Scotland and Ireland for women.
Is it the mitocondrial DNA you were thinking of to trace the womens heritage? Norse X-chromosome DNA should be just as prevalent as the Y-chromosome, I assume the Vikings had daughters. And X-chromsomes change every generation in women due to mitosis.
My dad’s ancestors were Hebridean Scots and our tests showed a mix of Scottish, Norse and Irish DNA. I’ve got green eyes but my siblings inherited hazel eyes from our mom.
You aren't from Yazoo City are you? Your description is the same as a high school girlfriend.😅 I think that she got her green eyes from jer mom though. Not sure, that was a long time ago. Her last name was definitely Scottish and she had dark hair and green eyes. When she dumped me after 2yrs, i was devastated. Lol She was beautiful, but now its funny how important it seemed then.
My Dad's ancestors are also Hebridean Scots ( North/South Uist) , and my Ancestry and 23 and me also have me as 50% Scottish, Scandinavian(Denmark ,Norway ,Sweden), Irish ,English DNA. I have blue/green eyes.
I'm 8th gen Aussie. Haven't had my DNA tested, all I know for a fact is that I have....English, Irish, Scottish, German, Danish and French! I guess that makes me a Bitsa? Or a flamin mongrel? 😂
My husband and I both have Vikings in our family tree and similar colourings 😅 His eyes are a lovely blue green and mine are closest to a dark bottle green. My hair is somewhere between a dull brown and old gold kind of colour. Our children have very blue eyes with white blonde and strawberry blonde hair respectively.
Folksy my mum used to call me strawberry blonde I call it red blonde I thought my mums name for my hair was made up by her lolol is it an actual name for red blonde hair? I see you used it. I thought it was a made-up name by Mum.
I’m born and bred English, however, both of my great grandfathers were Swedish and Norwegian. My DNA is 45% Scottish, 31% England and Northwestern Europe, 22% Irish, and 2% Sweden and Denmark. I can’t understand how my paternal great grandfather was Norwegian, yet only it doesn’t reflect in my DNA.
And, remember the Normans were Viking descendants. Norman means Norseman. Hrolf (Rollo) the Ganger led the Vikings who established it. They conquered Anglo Saxon England and much of Ireland as well. They also captured Sicily, where the population was mixed between Arabs, Italians, Africans, and various races from east of there. They also conquered Apulia. Before them, Viking fleets had invaded Spain, and Luni, in NW Italy, which they mistook for Rome. So they were wandering around the Mediterranean. The Russ founded Ukraine and traveled the Russian rivers. They attempted to invade Constantinople, but failed. The Byzantine emperors hired many Norse, including Russ (where Russia got its name), Norwegians, Danes, and also the Housecarles of Harold Godwinson, who left England after the defeat at the Battle of Hastings, by William of Normandy..Norse warriors composed the Varangian guard, the Byzantine Emperor’s personal guard, and even the Norwegian king, Harald Hardrada, who invaded England days before William of Normandy, and who and most if his army were defeated and killed by Harold Godwinson’s army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Out of 200 ships full of men, possibly 80 men to a ship, more likely varied, as many Viking Jarls had their own ships, only 20 ships sufficed to return the survivors home. And, they settled parts of Greenland (the climate went through a warming period between the 800’s, and it fell off in the 1300’s), as well as settling in Les Anse Aux Meadows in Newfoundland, and must have gotten as far south as the St Lawrence or Hudson rivers, as they found grape seeds from North America, when archeologists excavated Gudrid the Far Traveler’s home in Iceland. Gudrid very well have been the first Caucasian woman to give birth in the New World. The Vikings got around, and visited many parts of our world
I'm Australian borne with ancestry from all over the map. Gotta say, knowing that I have ancestors from all over the place is great. So many adventurous people getting together. I love it so much ❤
@@lucianaromulus1408 Native Norwegians and immigrants interbreed relatively rarely and there weren't anymore redheads when I was young prior to mass immigration in the 80's. That said, they were likely replaced by the blondes that came from the Baltics and Finland via Sweden in that time period.
@pezlover1974 yeah...to an extent true...but they're growing more extinct because Native Northern Europeans aren't having enough kids. I don't want to see them go X Tinkt, mixed unions and this will wipe them off our planet
Frida Lyngstad, the red head from ABBA was born in Norway to a Norwegian girl and Getman nazi soldier. She had red hair and green eyes. She ended up in Sweden when the Germans fled occupied Norway. Her fathernever saw her born. Norway hated these German lebensborn children and did unspeakable things to them. Fridas mother and grandmother fled to Sweden with her when she was a baby to escape persecution.
Many from southern Sweden, Danmark and from Gotland and the Boltic countries have blue eyes, black hair and pale skin. Dark hair and pale skin is common all over Sweden.
Viking is not an ethnicity ; it was a job or culture. Just like other nordics were fisherman or carpenters. It's like saying that all japanese were Samurais😂
@@Ge0rGi. you're right, but since most of the Nordic ethnicity in western Europe originated in raids and invasions, there a high probability that the men that did said raids were indeed sea going warriors who were thuggish. violent, and had very bad manners, in other words Vikings for lack of a better word. Don't feel too bad. beside their less positive traits, they were also fearless , bold, adventurous, and ambitious.
@@catherinehenry6762 yeah right, like all the empires , no? They were all fearless🤣 Still, Viking was a job, not an ethnicity, they found dark skinned vikings. So anyone could be a Viking.
I’m 75% Norwegian and 25% Sami. My mother had dark brown hair and hazel eyes. My father was blonde with blue eyes. All my relatives are mostly tall and slender. Proud of my heritage!
Yep, same. People don't get the changes based on feelings and wellness. But is there a name for such colour, as blue/green/grey as a description confuses people who are single coloured.
@@paradigmystic3123 Yes. It’s hard when folks ask for eye color on documents like driver’s license because some places don’t want to put blue-green so they just put blue or green or hazel, but many folks think of hazel eyes as having gold or brown colors. Mine are strictly blue-green-grey. Health and emotions definitely affect the color. I haven’t figured that bit out yet either.
Dad was 100% Finnish w green eyes. Mom was mixed Brit Isles and sort of Belorussian, (and a tiny bit of Finnish too, surprise!) her eyes were blue green, which could flash green if she was speaking with intensity lol. Mine are just gray. Sensitive to light, more as I grow older. 🙂
Regarding slavery and gene flow from Northern Europe to the Middle East, the Muslim world raided Europe for slaves for around 1200 years. This occurred as far north and west as southern Iceland as late as the mid-1800s. The U.S. Marines were created to stop the depredation of American merchant vessels, passengers, and crews by the Barbary (North Africa) Pirates.
I can’t find anything that supports this statement about the creation of the USA marines being in response to piracy, and nothing to do with North Africa 🧐
@@TheKrispyfortHistory of the world. Everyone is guilty. Protect your own. That is what you're supposed to do... Protect your own... which isn't happening today in the U.S. it is planned, systemic action taking place along its borders. Actual, the west overall. So, enforcing others from taking your people is historical. Romans conquered a lot of the world, but still defended their own.
at 6:48 not sure about that comment in the video but it is well-known that the most slaves they took was from the Slavic world - Crimea was, sadly, a trading post for the slaves and they were taken away to the middle east/north Africa or to western Europe.
There was a dark-haired blue-eyed rosy-faced Irish-born fellow a year ahead of me in high school, He went home to Ireland after graduation. A regular terror on the soccer pitch, as I recall, and as nice a guy as you would ever want to meet.
My Irish mother had jet black hair and blue eyes , but her skin was light with freckles . People thought she was a redhead that colored her hair jet black .
I was dark haired and blue eyed ,out of a family of twelve only two of us have blue eyes, mum and dad both brown , dads Welsh decent mums a bit of a mix i think .
As to the slave question it’s ridiculous to think that slaves were only black. Many many slaves came from the Slavic region which were white was how we get the name slave.
Exactly. At a time when many countries were being invaded, occupied, conquered, and pillaged- taking slaves was a very common practice. And in Africa, slaves taken by tribal wars was later sold / traded to Americans. Alex Haley, the author of Roots, was very misleading on the subject. Capturing Africans running through the jungle with a net is much more appealing to a reader than the truth.
You are totally mistaken. They weren't black at all. As there weren't black people in Europe. They were mostly ordinary people and warriors captures in war and raids. Both sides took slaves. And the word wasn't slave, but TRELL. The word slave came in The middle ages. And it's not from slavic, but a word comprised of Greek and Latin elements.
@@Angela-g1q4q And the English and the Irish captured Vikings. But they didn't come to Scandinavia and fight us. So we are to blame. But the point is, everyone captured the enemy and used as slaves.
Your comment in passing about schizophrenia and the Vikings is interesting. Would love to know more about that. I lived in the Lofoten Islands (northern Norway) in high school in mid-1970’s and had a friend who developed schizophrenia suddenly. I was aware that the majority of the local population’s term for this, translated from Norwegian, was “youth sickness”. So it was common enough that they had a slang term for it-and knew when it was, ostensibly, most likely to develop.
Hmmm…interesting. My mother is from Scotland with a wee bit of Irish. My father of Northwestern European/English mostly, some Scottish and a touch of Finnish and Danish. I have a half brother (whose mother was from Norway). He seems to have schizotypal personality disorder, though never diagnosed. My youngest son has schizoaffective and so did his father who was a big blonde-haired, blue-eyed guy. Many men in my dad’s side seem to have strange thinking. Wonder if the ‘Viking’ genetics plays into it.
I have Swedish, Danish, and Scottish. I had white blonde hair when I was young, but it turned brown about 17. I have brown eyes. My husband and son have brown eyes, but my grandson has blue gray.
My father was Scottish with Norwegian ancestry. My mother was from York in Northern England. I have Dupertryns contracture. So I know I have Viking blood!🏴🇳🇴
@@TheKrispyfort Yes it is. If you get it early in life it’s not too much of a problem. I first noticed it in both hands when I was 42. Now 10 years later it’s only on my right hand and only looking weird. Physically it doesn’t affect me.
@@Epsillion70 42? Yeah that's when it started presenting in my hands, now 47yo. Not a practical problem. So, only another five years until Odin and Thor decide my turn at the oars is done 🤣 Sorry, I'm weird and raised in Australia. Very random senses of humour
@@TheKrispyfort Hey I understand your humour actually as I grew up and lived in Australia from when I was / 2 years old. Been back here in Scotland for 5 years now. But culturally I am Aussie. Everything else I am a Celtic-Viking.💪🇦🇺🇳🇴🏴
Rubbish, you are 100% modern human descended from an ancient African hominid. All that dna matching tells you is that like everybody on Earth your forebears travelled around and shagged a lot.
Yes! Mine is very similar I have light blue eyes as well, along with 2 other of my siblings! We have strong swedish heritage and strong viking DNA. It's so cool!
@@Michael-fo1we No, I’m not 73% Scandinavian. LivingDNA give you a Viking index. That figure means I have more Viking linked dna than 73% of all the people they have tested. My autosomal (last 300 years) is 100% English, Scottish, Welsh and a tidgy bit of Irish.
Black Irish is not uncommon actually. Especially if you came from the coast. A lot of facts in that video and in comments are very incorrect or the time line is so off. For a very intriguing read if you're into genetics. Look up Morocco and the genetic make up. I suggest going back before the French invasion too. You can learn a lot about the debate over being Arabic and not. I have a very small amount in my family. I'm almost positive it came from the Mediterranean side. Menorca is where my Spanish people came from. We even landed in Florida during the Spanish slave trade and fight over the state with the French. I'm very English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. I found my heritage the site It updates info and groups of migration are in categories. It's very well done. Though I think it's run by Israel. When Ashkenazi popped up in my ancestors I got a phone call (this was about 2010 so different time) all the way from Tel Aviv. It's only 2%, but their goal is to have a very white Israel. So other Jewish lineages are not treated so well. Thankfully I didn't want to move there or even visit. I'm more in touch with my Celtic roots. I love that you're black Irish. My family is very mixed. I look like my grandma with my grandfather's olive skin tone and dark eyes and hair. My father's family is blue eyes and brown to blonde hair. They're very connected to Iceland and both north and east Europe. My father looked into their genetics and found lots of people listed. He's traced his family by genetics and found a writer in the family. It helped by watching where he lived to explain a lot. Genealogy is a big passion of mine. But many people don't give facts to line up with vikings. It's so important to go back to the bronze age. I actually found someone who can trace most anyone genetically to their bronze era family. It's quite amazing. I'm a mutt though. With the only area missing being Asia. I've got family all over the world now. I think the strangest line was following my father's name into Jamaica 🇯🇲 Some sweet people live there. We are not sure if we're genetic relatives yet being as I'm mostly Caucasian. But it will be cool to figure that out one day. Have you looked into if you have Portuguese or Spanish relatives? I was told that is where many dark hair light eye Irish comes from. Ireland was plundered and had people taken into slavery by vikings and Portuguese as well. So it's a very interesting trail of genes
The Western Europeans captured by the Barbary pirates and taken into slavery may also have had a genetic impact on the Middle East, possibly increasing the percentage of people with light eyes.
It went both ways, didn't it? There apparently were viking and Germanic settlements in North Africa and the Germanic tribes conquered parts of the italian peninsula, too. The vikings captured people from the Middle East as well
@@veronicalogotheti1162 Right! This blue-eye-blonde-hair-Nordic-origin stuff is just stupid. Scandinavian men have haplogroup I1, and that's not quite visible. The Berbers have some original blue eye genes that they shared with the dark-skinned-blue-eyed Western Hunter-Gatherers (WHG). Nordics were originally just an admixture between WHG, EHG and some Yamnaya dudes from South East.
@@rursus8354 you are from Asia Attila the Hun with same Celtics From there the light eyes The aryans and some Celts are the original Blonde light eyes people
I went to Denmark in 2018 and found that, curiously, the predominate hair color was dark brown, surprisingly very dark brown, unlike when I arrived in Minneapolis, MN USA in the 90's, the sea of people at the airport where blondes. Men, women, children I had never seen so many blondes. This is what I had anticipated seeing after landing in Copenhagen, nope.
It’s very different if you look at Danish children. I have a bother and 2 cousins (male and female) we were all blonde as kids, but as adults my brother and female cousin both have brown eyes and dark brown hair, I have hazel eyes and medium dark hair with natural highlights and my male cousin has blue eyes and blonde hair. It’s extremely common for Danish children to be start out blond and get darker hair as we age, so look at an elementary school class picture and 90% of the kids are different shades of blond
Ha ha so true. I live in northern Minnesota. I have reddish blondish type hair and light gray almost silver eyes. My grandparents came from Sweden. They had 12 children all blue eyed
My husband was 100% Swedish, having come from an island off the west coast. His ancestors had lived there "forever". His hair was white as a kid, but got darker and darker with age. It's kind of typical. Many blond Swedish women have to dye their locks as they age to keep their blondness. 😊
The Vikings reached Sicily relatively early in their heyday, 860. It was their practice to bring back booty which included black and brown haired, brown eyed women. So there’s no mystery as to why Scandinavians aren’t 100% blue eyed with blond hair.
Scandinavian were never that blond’s it a myth, before the raids generic finds showed blonds especially in Denmark was a the least common and this was true long way up in history, we turned blond due to nationalism in the 19 century were the blond tall, strong Vikings myth were created and this created selective breeding drastically increasing the blond population or this is the latest hypothesis
My mother-in-law who was 100% Swedish had blonde hair, blue eyes and was 5'10" in height. My paternal male line has origins in Norway and was over 6 foot tall with blue eyes and blonde hair. I am originally from Indiana, USA.
The Vikings sailed down major water ways all over Europe which is why there are so many Ukrainians with blue and green eyes. The Vikings sailed down the river Dnipro and left their DNA behind in the local women. Blond hair and blue eyes is very common in Ukraine.
@@amuxpatch2798 Russians like to think they were the "father" of all Slavs but we all know differently. Kiev is much older than Moscow and Ukrainians have a different language, religion and customs. Slava Ukraine!
@@flowergrower1247 You take 12.5 percent of the carriers of haplogroup I1 i Russia for 150 million people, this will turn out to be 12 million people in Russia alone.There are 10 million people living in Sweden, and the carriers of haplogroup I1, 38 percent, it turns out that only 3.8 million carriers of this haplogroup live in Sweden.
@@imperskiikulak446 It would appear your data is incorrect. The top countries with blue eyed populations are Estonia and Finland both have 89%. Russia does not rank in the top 19 countries. Sweden has 78%.
I’m about as Viking as you get on my paternal line. My brother and I are both blue eyed blondes though his hair is white blonde where mine is gold. My late husband was known as a black Scot, black hair and blue eyes. A stunning look as everyone knows.
The Irish could certainly differentiate between Danes and Norwegians, as they gave the Danes names like Doyle (Black) for the black haired Danes as opposed to the blonde haired Norwegians.
@@user-qr9uh1fd8gWell, you probably mean "the Walloons"? That's people coming from the Walloon area in nowadays Belgium/north France. The Walloons were ironworkers, blacksmiths, and came to Sweden and Finland during the first half of the 1600s. So quite recently. Nowadays everyone claims to have Walloons in their family tree...
I am very impressed finally someone that knows the difference between the Scandinavian and Nordic term usually 99% mix these two up miserably, Cheers for a great vid as always, Sweden!
Hey mate, from County Antrim and can see Scotland on a good day and have no issues understanding you, no captions required. Very interesting presentation. Thanks.
Great vid, sir. Very balanced and informative. I'm also fascinated by the idea that the Vikings may have increased the rate of blue and gray eyes in the ME, which is where I'm from. It is plausible. But I just want to add that Lebanese and Syrians in particular have had the genes for blue eyes long before the Vikings had sailed and traded in the region. (Probably since the early Iron Age, according to recent genetic studies).
@@celtichistorydecoded One good study done by Haber et al is called "Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History". That's where they also mention that the Lebanese they tested had between 11% and 22% Steppe-related ancestry, and that this was a necessary component for modeling their dna. If I'm not mistaken, this may be one of the sources for light eyes in our population.
In addition to this, there was direct genetic input from the Romans, during the Roman and Byzantine Empires. We do have some direct European admixture as a result, but not very much. So, it doesn't seem likely this would have been the main contributing factor.
Whites lived in that region for centuries before the Arab/ Muslim conquest of the 7th century. Plus during the crusades, many Europeans who were captured by Muslims forces, converted to Islam and stayed there.
Super interesting. Did early Celtic (Irish) have black hair and light eyes? I heard that that was common for pure blooded celts. Also my dad's from Greece and he said the Norther Greeks have a lot of blond hair and blue eyes because of the Viking attacks in the past.
According to genetic studies, the Greeks have Slavic ancestry, for the last 1000 years they have been mixing with them, they do not have significant Viking ancestry. Studies of Haplogroup R1a reinforce this.
Perhaps but they probably always had blonde hair and blue, green eyes it was just not that common also because of South Slavs. Byzantine historian's describe old South Slavs as blonde or something in between, lighter then Greeks but darker then Germanic tribes.
@@glory4645 Genetic studies do not find Viking ancestry in the Greeks. But if they find Steppe and Slavic ancestry related to blonde hair, Steppe people are one of the main components that form the Autosomal DNA of modern Europeans, they are found in all Europeans, also in populations of Central Asia and parts of South Asia. .
@@glory4645 The Vikings are characterized by having high levels of Steppe and high levels of Scandinavian Hunter Gatherers, the SHG component is not found in Southern Europe, but the steppe does exist in small to moderate quantities
That’s super interesting thank you for sharing your hard work. I’m from the north of England and my ancestral roots are in Northumberland & southern Scotland, I had a dna test done recently which came back 25% Scandinavian ✨🤍
Your reddish auburn hair is gorgeous especially with your light eyes something I noticed many of the ladies had in Scotland during my travels I tried to die my hair this color and I ended up like Ronald McDonald lol. Less than .5 of the worlds population is natural redhead. It's the rarest for sure.
Recent studies say that they were a mixture but not predominantly blonde genetically. Brown and red hair quite common. I also read that blond was considered attractive so many dyed their hair and beards. Not much has changed there😂
I’m a dark haired, hazel eyed and only 2 generations removed from Finland and Norway. But I also have quite a bit of Scots/Irish blood and I think we can guess why. My grandfather always joked Norwegian men loved to go to Finland to find a wife, and he did my grandmother lol!
I have only just found out I'm in 15% Danish and Swedish in my DNA traits.... Apparently that "Viking genetics " came into my maternal family's dna in 1600's. greatly interesting for me.Thank you. Best regards from Poland 🎉❤
Viking is not an ethnicity ; it was a job or culture. Just like other nordics were fisherman or carpenters. It's like saying that all japanese were Samurais😂
The dark hair didn't come from southern Europe it came from native population of Scandinavia's hunter gatherers, which have dark hair and blue eyes. The blond hair, light skin and green/ grey eye color came from Corded Ware people who invaded Scandinavian countries 2500BC. They introduced R1a haplogroup to the natives I1 haplogroup, The R1b haplogroup came mostly from slaves, which Vikings brought from Britain (R1b being the Celtic haplogroup) in big numbers.
@@sfjlfkjsdlfkjds You are partially correct because the whole of western Europe was mostly Celtic at those times and many migrated north to Denmark (as Denmark is connected to European continent and Sweden and Norway is not, at least from the west side). On the other hand, Vikings r1a and I1 were busy conquering English land and were taking the local women as their wives, living behind their own wives in Scandinavia. Women in Scandinavia started to mix with the R1b male slaves because of a lack of a native men.
@@valamerkozlowski7915 Started mixing with slaves because of a lack of native men? No. Firstly, free peoples couldn't mix with taken slaves. It was illegal. It was legal to marry a native born slave. But even then, free women would scarcely marry down. And if you're thinking of just sex. Well, where are all the mixed babies? There would have been way more ethnic mixing if what you say is true. But the genetic data show that the immigrants mostly kept to their own group. The diversity within scandinavia went down a lot after the viking age. Why? Because most immigration didn't mix with the local population. If it was common in any way that scandinavian women mixed with slaves, the numbers would have looked way different.
Light hair and eyes are common in the middle east to India depending on tribe/ location. Scandinavians are not the only people with light eyes. My familiy traces it's ancient ancestry to Persia. Blue to brown eyes, red to deep black hair, light skin to very dark skin.
My family has many different ethnic backgrounds in it, but we have the most tracing back to Faroe Islands & still have family living in Denmark even today.
I was married to a man with a Norwegian background for 45 years. He was red-haired and had blue eyes. Our children are both red-haired with blues eye's as are our grandchildren and great grandchildren. I am pink white and had light brown to blond hair. My mother had red hair. I think it's hard to get past these traits!
I have a Viking index score of 67%, I have black eyes, a black beard and my eyebrows meet in the middle, just like the Icelandic Viking Egil Skallagrimson, who ransomed his head from Erik Bloodaxe, King of York, by composing a superb poem. Egil's last act before he died, in old age, was to kill the slave he took with him to help bury his treasure, to stop its location becoming known. My DNA is most similar to Danish and Swedish Vikings. Viking descriptive nicknames were accurate Kolskeggr, 'coalbeard', obviously had a black beard, Halfdan Svarti - Halfdan the Black was swarthy and, if most Norse people were blond, the use of the nickname Harald Fairhair makes no sense.
No. DNA data is clear - Irish, Serbs and Russes where "Vikings". But, viking is meaningless because its twisted a bit. I believe that name was Voiak, voenik, because it match Serbian language and its the same like reading wrongly interpreted term back in time - „Fenician“ which is in right readin agean the same- Boeniki. Because, they where soldiers and owners of trade. Its so easy.
@@СашаПетровић-н6х Viking is from the Old Norse 'víkingr', which was used in the sense of 'a raider'. It may derive from the ON 'vik', a term for a sea inlet.
@@urseliusurgel4365 as we know from ever, despite denying of writen facts, proven by DNA tests, Vikings were never "Norse", and word was not from "Norse", but word "viking" was become "Norse" with slight change. Voinik means soldier. It is descriptive as it could be - 100% match the role of "Viking". You can trade only if you have protection. Wake up. DNA test are done. We can relax and stop believe in intentionaly wrong western interpetations of facts.
@@urseliusurgel4365 most of Swedish Vikings were blond, most of Danes had red hair the dna study showed however as mentioned in this video there were lots of mixing so all colors were found, Halfdan means that he was "half a Dane" it was typically used for the first son in a mixed marriage
I have green eyes, when i was younger i was a blonde (My daughter was a blonde with greenish blue eyes and my granddaughter is a blonde with blue eyes) i also tanned very good when i was young, as i got older my hair turned a bit darker and it's naturally curly, according to genome i am 66% part of Scandinavian Vikings, my DNA on ancestry is 46% Germanic, and 27% Sweden and Denmark and 6% Norway.
Black hair in Britain and Ireland is still very rare, only in very small areas in Cornwall, Wales and Ireland in their southern coasts is it found, a lot of these areas were not affected by raids by the Norse.
@@connorparker6461 Black hair is very rare in Britain and Ireland really?the places you mentioned are all very well known for having Celtic populations, the Celtic tribes were all over Britain well before the Romans arrived and the millions of indigenous people of the British Isles today are descended from them.
Modern Norwegians have between 14% and 25% DNA derived from Britain and Ireland. Swedes also have some DNA of the same origins, but at lower levels. Icelanders have an even larger proportion than the Norwegians.
@@urseliusurgel4365 Yes, we've all been mixing to some extent for thousands of years in North Western Europe, this also could have been Vikings taking some Celtic, Irish and British women back to scandanavia with them.
There may have been some.. Moors and Saracens were trading and travelling throughout Europe in 8th century. Probably rare, but yes... some. Most likely more common than Elves falling in love with Dwarves.. Less than what new movies portray to attract audiences.. but yes.. there were some. .. People are people and tend to move around.. Be Well!! 😃
@@michaelfritts6249 again, many slaves. There was a great deal of commerce. The Viking men planted crops in the spring and went raiding or trading. Chinese silk was found in some of their houses. So, it is more than likely that there were black women slaves, and possibly even black vikings.
@@patrickmcelligott5646 Are you saying that the Norse traders or the Saracens and Moors never chose to join, travel or stay with those they visited or found a bond... but only in the circumstance of bondage? Cultural differences are often confused with racial differences. "Race" and "Ethnicity" are too often used as an excuse to claim difference when folks who are culturally similar seek to find a scapegoat for imagined woes.. a friendly neighbor becomes an "other".. because someone said so and an advantage is percieved.. People have always mixed.. we are human. I agree it was not frequent.. distances made common interactions rare.. but it was not always due to slavery.. No "rose tinted glasses".. just acknowledging that there is more "gray" than "black and white".. Be Well!! 🙂
I am noticing that there’s no mention of Norwegian/alaskan native mixes. That’s what I am. I have cousins with bright red hair and blue or green eyes. Also my youngest son has strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. He’s got very strong broad shoulders and his beard is red. He is the epitome of a “Norse 11:28 Viking”. I have dark olive skin and dark brown hair and eyes! I was shocked in the delivery room because he was so pink and white lol
They use to say that Irish people with black hair had Spanish Ancestry going back to the Spanish Armada, but genetic science debunked that. Black hair is believed to be the original hair colour of Europeans. That and light skin and blue eyes. A typical Irish phenotype. Remember the Irish are probably the most full blooded Europeans because of our location. We were never invaded by the Romans or the Moors. Many Scandinavians look partly Oriental. And so do the Slavs. Blond hair is just a recessive as is Blue eyes. But Red hair is a multiple gene trait, as far as I know ?
My DNA is 95% Germanic, 60% being Scandinavian, predominantly Norwegian and Swedish. Father had jet black hair, and piecing blue eyes. Mother from Normandy ancestors, brown eyes. I was born with blonde hair and blue grey eyes. My hair changed to honey blonde, by the time l was 5. 🇦🇺
Hi mate I’m 38pc Viking my ancestors come from the Scottish Highlands Denmark and Sweden I enjoyed this video I’m based in Australia one day I would like to go to Scotland and Iceland. I have Viking Swords and Scottish Swords that I made they are on my wall just in case if I get invaded one more time from the English. Regards. Laurie the Viking. From down under.
In December of 884, the Frisians did their best to equalize the Viking sex imbalance. During their transition from paganism to Christianity, a power vacuum developed in Frisia that allowed a Viking infestation on the East Frisian Peninsula. The Frisians reorganized themselves, and according to period accounts, they killed 10,337 during the Battle of Norditi (this number excludes those who drowned trying to get away). I saw a while back that an utterly destroyed Viking fortress in the area had been excavated. I never heard if they determined how the Frisians disposed of the dead Vikings. If they buried them, this would be a potential genetic treasure trove.
Finland has got the most blue eyed ppl in the world. 90%. Also blond hair is very common and they are tall. Watch the video "Which country has the most blondies?"
I’m a “Longobard” Lombard.. they went from Scandinavia to Italy 🇮🇹- conquering most of Italy and ruled for 200 years. Blonde/blue eyed. So many moving parts… Most modern day Italian people have Viking blood.
Viking is not an ethnicity ; it was a job or culture. Just like other nordics were fisherman or carpenters. It's like saying that all japanese were Samurais😂
I have Red hair and blue eyes. My father is German Father, Swedish Mother. My Mother is German Father, her Mother is Nordic, traced back to 911 when Rollo settled in France. I literally live damn near the center of the U.S. and even though world wide Red/Blue is rare, here its ULTRA common. Due to the clans of people settling together, ALL of which conquered at one time, or anothet by Nordic people. Viking is a verb, not a noun. So, if you have ANY euro lineage, especially north west, your almost guaranteed to have some Northern European blood. All that considered, we are mutts in the truest for. The dilution of purity came from Viking.
My father is of Danish & Sweden descent derived from my grandmother- whose mother was a Dane married a Swede after immigrating to America in the early 1900. My father paternal side consisted of German natives whom also immigrated to America around the same time. My father has blue eyes, is short in stature (5’ 6), blondish / brown hair, thin nose, higher than average IQ, served in the US Navy for 26 yrs, and was very comfortable on a ship or sub for long periods of time. Which I contribute to his Viking heritage. My grandmother’s immediate family who immigrated from Denmark & Sweden worked very hard all their lives and were highly skilled, motivated, and successful- leaving a legacy that was shared by both descendants in the US and Sweden. Being a part of this family makes me very proud.
My dad's side is where we thought our Scandanavian & Viking connection came from. It was. His haplogroup if R (I can't remember the rest) And it did. Finish, Sweden, Norway etc all show up In his and my DNA. But what surprised me is my mom's (and mine because I'm female) haplogroup, as said on ancestry, to be one of the Sami haplogroups from how I interpreted it. Please forgive me if I am in error as I don't want to mislead anyone. But one of the Sami haplogroups is U right? We are haplogroup: U5b1c I've been doing geanology for 20 years now and love it. Thank you for your video. 😊
The Vikings came to Newfoundland, Canada. The site, L’Anse aux Meadows, is on the tip of Newfoundland. Greenland was perhaps also a site where they went.
I am 75% Norwegian. I have blond hair and blue eyes. My mother who was 100% Norwegian was the only blue eyed blond hair in her family. All her siblings had darker hair and brown eyes.
We have a large percentage of Scandinavian genetics as well as Irish Scottish and Welsh. Almost everyone in my family has gray eyes. They look bluer in the winter but summer they get really light. Most of us also have a rare blood type.
Myself and my children of course😊 are descendants of kings and warriors from the Viking Age. At least my eyes are turquoise and blonde hair as a child, so it's brown blonde now. At least one son has an odd eye color. turquoise eyes with a brown stripe around the iris.
Im an American with English, Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish and Scottish my hair is three different colors blonde,red,dark brown,but looks dishwater blond and Hazel eyes.
Regarding hair color, the Irish had two names for invaders, finngaill and dubgaill meaning fair and dark foreigners. Some scholars have hypothesized that dubgaill foreigners were from Denmark and the finngail were from Norway. Interesting to think about.
According to a 2020 DNA study of over 400 Viking remains, most Vikings had dark eyes and dark hair. However, eye and hair colors may have varied depending on ancestry.
I'm a 5"10 redheaded blue eyed female my heritage would not suggest this coloring you have to ask what part of France, Italy and Spain would combine to produce a mostly Celtic followed by Danish, Greek, north, central and southern European with a splash of Sephardic Jew for extra spice.
Here's one you can have for nothing ... the areas of the world with the greatest resources (oil/coal/food etc) have the greatest variation in eye colour over time.
I believe that a potential cause for the relatively wide spread of light eye color among contemporary Middle Eastern population, is the Vandal kingdom, who ruled in North Africa and the Mediterranean for about 100 years starting from around 435 AD. This kingdom was established by Germanic tribes migrating from the north parts of the crumbling Roman empire at that time, down through Spain and into North Africa. A substantial amount of Germanic-descendant population occupying those regions for a substantial amount of time, could very likely account for at least some of these "remnants" of light eye color that we observe in these regions today.
Modern day, Norwegian here 🙋🏻♀️ Almost black hair and greenish hazel eyes, mostly Norwegian and Icelandic dna with 85%, a little Swedish and Finnish. And I saw Ireland and the Faroese islands on the dna map.
I have Germanic (87%) and Sweden/Denmark (13%) ancestry with a bit of Ashkenazi and I have grey eyes with a dark grey limbal ring. Maternal haplogroup H. I have light skin and dark blonde hair. My eyes are extremely light sensitive!
I wonder if you can make a video about the genetics of the berbers. I was going to ask for a video about the influence of the bell beaker culture over North africa but I didn't think there would be much to talk about, so probably a short.
Well, I'm from Algeria and it's quite common to find people with a red head/beard (red beards are more common) in the area I live in . I myself have traces of red hair in my beard and I know of some blonds in the family and I really wanted to know whether this was due to steppe related ancestry or anatolian farmer ancestry. Romans and Byzantines ruled the place for centuries, Vandals ruled for about 90 years but I'm not sure how much influence they had on the genetic makeup of the area. Many people from the north of the country get some spanish ancestry when they test their DNA and some say it's because of Moriscos who fled the Spanish inquisition.
My viking side comes from my dad. He has darks brown hair and Grey eyes. My mom had no Viking heritage and she has dark brown hair and brown eyes. My sister takes after my mom with brown hair brown eyes. I am the only one in my family with bright true blue eyes and blonde hair.
Thanks for watching! Please let me know your thoughts below...
I love the charts. But they don't show how they they were when the vikings were. In simpler terms where do they come from first? Where dis the Russian RUS vikings come from? So you give good grasp but you need to give a good graph of what it used to be 200 years ago and what it is today. Because people think they're related to some people today because if I can ancestry but literally they came from a different part of the world 500 years ago. And did you mention if the types that we find are from paternal or maternal lineage? I know that they had slaves that were also white could you make a video literally saying that white people owned white slaves? Because, you know all white people in the United States are bad people because they kept black people as slaves. The problem is they were just for sale at a cheap rate across a smaller Ocean than any other ocean to cross, so yes we kept black slaves however Norwegians icelanders greenlanders Vikings they all kept white slaves so why doesn't anyone talk about that and why haven't they quote unquote released the records of people who were stolen from other countries because obviously Vikings did that and they were white people I would subscribe and share and do everything I could do if you made a video about white people selling slaves from other white people that would be really freaking awesome because we sound like idiots when we say it but literally it's the truth
At 9:19 the group I1 is clustered in east Norway and central Sweden, while the "Norwegian" vikings generally would be settled in around the fjords from the south west of Norway where R1b is the male majority. Looking at the Orkney's and Irish composition it is likely the vikings from the west of Norway originally arrived from Ireland pre viking time. This theory also correlates with the low volume of I1 found in established viking temporarily settlements where this particular viking group would have evolved through such as Dublin, York, Iceland, Normandy etc. Also it is impossible that a slave group become a major branch, so I think it's sad that the Irish/Celtic connection seems to be overlocked completely. Don't forget the Irish Celts had similar boats as the Norse drakkar before viking times.
@@marcoschlaff813 I believe so. The drakkars was used for many thousands years around Ireland before a sail on a boat was dreamt about in Norway. I1 is for sure not a big part of the Norwegian vikings, even tho often erroneously referred to as such
And yet, I'm dark hair, brown eyed.
@@drgreengood The Scando-Germanic people/Insular Germanics/Scandinavians were likely "Germanized" Saami-like people both culturally and linguistically.. The thing is Germanic language didn't originate in Scandinavian peninsula and the haplogroups carried by both South Germanics and North Germanics(Insular Scando-Germanics) are different.. I'm Dutch and in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark.. we carry an overwhelmingly R1B haplogroup(and its subclade variants).. and genetically were closely related to the Britons and other Insular Celts(I believe they also got "Celticized" linguistically and culturally) because.. we're both carrying the R1B and actually the difference between Briton and Anglo-Saxon genetics is just minimal which means both are closely related but.. the South Germanics and North Germanics carrying a visible difference including the different haplogroups..
There was a joke I heard some years ago," why are all the Scandinavian women so beautiful!?!"
The reply for us was:" The Vikings didn't bring back any ugly ones"
Bad taste, but still kind of funny
Fair answer to that question
That's a good one 😂
I mean it makes sense! I'm swedish and all the women in my family are absolutely stunning!
It's probably true when you think about it.
True !
I lived in Iceland for quite a few years, and their genetic make up is interesting. The men have a Norse genetic inheritance on the Y Chromosome, whilst the women have a mostly Celtic inheritance on the X chromosome. It is genetic evidence of the Icelanders raiding Scotland and Ireland for women.
Is it the mitocondrial DNA you were thinking of to trace the womens heritage? Norse X-chromosome DNA should be just as prevalent as the Y-chromosome, I assume the Vikings had daughters. And X-chromsomes change every generation in women due to mitosis.
Not Wales though, we wuz made by the baby jeezus, red it in an old book wot i got.
You took all the good looking ones. Apparently.
All norwegian women got seasick
Now they're just raiding Russian and Thailand bride sites 😂😂😂😂
My dad’s ancestors were Hebridean Scots and our tests showed a mix of Scottish, Norse and Irish DNA. I’ve got green eyes but my siblings inherited hazel eyes from our mom.
❤you are hebrew.as machir( as in machir bay,)was.a descendant of shem.the chosen line of the lord's.noah being his father
You aren't from Yazoo City are you? Your description is the same as a high school girlfriend.😅
I think that she got her green eyes from jer mom though. Not sure, that was a long time ago.
Her last name was definitely Scottish and she had dark hair and green eyes.
When she dumped me after 2yrs, i was devastated. Lol
She was beautiful, but now its funny how important it seemed then.
My Dad's ancestors are also Hebridean Scots ( North/South Uist) , and my Ancestry and 23 and me also have me as 50% Scottish, Scandinavian(Denmark ,Norway ,Sweden), Irish ,English DNA. I have blue/green eyes.
I am Aussie with similar genetic makeup and green eyes too!! Haha (I got my dna tested)
I'm 8th gen Aussie. Haven't had my DNA tested, all I know for a fact is that I have....English, Irish, Scottish, German, Danish and French! I guess that makes me a Bitsa? Or a flamin mongrel? 😂
My husband and I both have Vikings in our family tree and similar colourings 😅 His eyes are a lovely blue green and mine are closest to a dark bottle green. My hair is somewhere between a dull brown and old gold kind of colour. Our children have very blue eyes with white blonde and strawberry blonde hair respectively.
I did my ancestry and came back 15% Norwegian. My eyes are green, but are so dark people think they are brown.
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Folksy my mum used to call me strawberry blonde I call it red blonde I thought my mums name for my hair was made up by her lolol is it an actual name for red blonde hair? I see you used it. I thought it was a made-up name by Mum.
I’m Scottish, Irish and English but 7% Scandinavian thanks to the Vikings.
I’m Danish but 13,9% Scottish/Irish thanks to the vikings 👍
I’m Irish,Scandinavian,Baltic and English thanks to theVikings.
I’m born and bred English, however, both of my great grandfathers were Swedish and Norwegian. My DNA is 45% Scottish, 31% England and Northwestern Europe, 22% Irish, and 2% Sweden and Denmark. I can’t understand how my paternal great grandfather was Norwegian, yet only it doesn’t reflect in my DNA.
The same with me. I have blue eyes and dark brown hair.
I'm half Scandinavian and half Irish ,so I'm viking and celtic,I have natural blonde hair and blue yes
And, remember the Normans were Viking descendants. Norman means Norseman. Hrolf (Rollo) the Ganger led the Vikings who established it. They conquered Anglo Saxon England and much of Ireland as well. They also captured Sicily, where the population was mixed between Arabs, Italians, Africans, and various races from east of there. They also conquered Apulia. Before them, Viking fleets had invaded Spain, and Luni, in NW Italy, which they mistook for Rome. So they were wandering around the Mediterranean. The Russ founded Ukraine and traveled the Russian rivers. They attempted to invade Constantinople, but failed. The Byzantine emperors hired many Norse, including Russ (where Russia got its name), Norwegians, Danes, and also the Housecarles of Harold Godwinson, who left England after the defeat at the Battle of Hastings, by William of Normandy..Norse warriors composed the Varangian guard, the Byzantine Emperor’s personal guard, and even the Norwegian king, Harald Hardrada, who invaded England days before William of Normandy, and who and most if his army were defeated and killed by Harold Godwinson’s army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Out of 200 ships full of men, possibly 80 men to a ship, more likely varied, as many Viking Jarls had their own ships, only 20 ships sufficed to return the survivors home. And, they settled parts of Greenland (the climate went through a warming period between the 800’s, and it fell off in the 1300’s), as well as settling in Les Anse Aux Meadows in Newfoundland, and must have gotten as far south as the St Lawrence or Hudson rivers, as they found grape seeds from North America, when archeologists excavated Gudrid the Far Traveler’s home in Iceland. Gudrid very well have been the first Caucasian woman to give birth in the New World. The Vikings got around, and visited many parts of our world
Really enjoyed reading your post
Rollo is my direct ancestor. A DNA test showed Norwegian Viking.
No the rus did not found Ukraine. Kiev the mother of all cities, is where tho original ppl. Start.
I’m English and Welsh mostly but have Scottish , Irish and Scandinavian DNA. Live in England , Blue eyed once Blonde old man.
I'm a woman with the same DNA..I'm blue eyed, with fair skin, however my hair was dark brown
I'm Australian borne with ancestry from all over the map.
Gotta say, knowing that I have ancestors from all over the place is great. So many adventurous people getting together.
I love it so much ❤
Just wonder how you look now.
@@lienbijs1205Celt I bet.. or aborigine.
I remember reading that the number of redheads in Norway in the Viking age was much higher than today as well
Because nowadays the native Norwegians are being bred out of existence ..
Geneticists in Ireland say that they brought red hair to Ireland. I love this type of research.
@@lucianaromulus1408 Native Norwegians and immigrants interbreed relatively rarely and there weren't anymore redheads when I was young prior to mass immigration in the 80's. That said, they were likely replaced by the blondes that came from the Baltics and Finland via Sweden in that time period.
@pezlover1974 yeah...to an extent true...but they're growing more extinct because Native Northern Europeans aren't having enough kids. I don't want to see them go X Tinkt, mixed unions and this will wipe them off our planet
Frida Lyngstad, the red head from ABBA was born in Norway to a Norwegian girl and Getman nazi soldier. She had red hair and green eyes. She ended up in Sweden when the Germans fled occupied Norway. Her fathernever saw her born. Norway hated these German lebensborn children and did unspeakable things to them. Fridas mother and grandmother fled to Sweden with her when she was a baby to escape persecution.
My Danish grandfather had black curly hair and blue eyes !
Like me 😅 Jet Black curly hair + milk pale skin and blue eye's that turn to green at times.
Yes, what a bunch of cuties!!
I have dark hair, and gray-green eyes. I'm 100% Swedish as far as the genealogy goes.
@@rursus8354 sweet as. A brother from another mother 😎
Many from southern Sweden, Danmark and from Gotland and the Boltic countries have blue eyes, black hair and pale skin. Dark hair and pale skin is common all over Sweden.
Much love to the Vikings from a fellow Briton
My last name is Brittain
That's forgiving.. Considering what we did to you.
Viking is not an ethnicity ; it was a job or culture. Just like other nordics were fisherman or carpenters. It's like saying that all japanese were Samurais😂
@@Ge0rGi. you're right, but since most of the Nordic ethnicity in western Europe originated in raids and invasions, there a high probability that the men that did said raids were indeed sea going warriors who were thuggish. violent, and had very bad manners, in other words Vikings for lack of a better word. Don't feel too bad. beside their less positive traits, they were also fearless , bold, adventurous, and ambitious.
@@catherinehenry6762 yeah right, like all the empires , no? They were all fearless🤣 Still, Viking was a job, not an ethnicity, they found dark skinned vikings. So anyone could be a Viking.
I’m 75% Norwegian and 25% Sami. My mother had dark brown hair and hazel eyes. My father was blonde with blue eyes. All my relatives are mostly tall and slender. Proud of my heritage!
Don't you mean 75% Skandinavien..
Scandinavian and Norwegian are not the same thing...
@@anul6801 Norway is a part of Skandinavien
I agree! Is so much better than brown.
@@3_times_mum520 and Scandinavian is part of European. Whats your point?
Hazel eyes here that appear blue-green-grey, depending upon the light and my mood (when I cry or have a headache my eyes appear bright green).
Me too I'm half finnish
My hazel eyes change color depending on what color I am wearing.
@@serahloeffelroberts9901 Yes. Mine too.
Yep, same. People don't get the changes based on feelings and wellness. But is there a name for such colour, as blue/green/grey as a description confuses people who are single coloured.
@@paradigmystic3123 Yes. It’s hard when folks ask for eye color on documents like driver’s license because some places don’t want to put blue-green so they just put blue or green or hazel, but many folks think of hazel eyes as having gold or brown colors. Mine are strictly blue-green-grey. Health and emotions definitely affect the color. I haven’t figured that bit out yet either.
Dad was 100% Finnish w green eyes. Mom was mixed Brit Isles and sort of Belorussian, (and a tiny bit of Finnish too, surprise!) her eyes were blue green, which could flash green if she was speaking with intensity lol.
Mine are just gray. Sensitive to light, more as I grow older. 🙂
I have some Scandinavian blood, bright green eyes. I believe Vikings had a lot of green eyed people.
They had alot of blue eyes to
@@bernadettekenaghan3246 I have blue eyes
@@Rolanda-Doe.1126I have blue eyes to
As am I. I've had my DNA done twice now, and Scandinavian is there. My eyes are green to what people call hazel.
@fotter9567 my family are all light .blonde apart from my dad he has dark hair
Regarding slavery and gene flow from Northern Europe to the Middle East, the Muslim world raided Europe for slaves for around 1200 years. This occurred as far north and west as southern Iceland as late as the mid-1800s. The U.S. Marines were created to stop the depredation of American merchant vessels, passengers, and crews by the Barbary (North Africa) Pirates.
Bit hypocritical of the USA y'reckon?
I can’t find anything that supports this statement about the creation of the USA marines being in response to piracy, and nothing to do with North Africa 🧐
@@TheKrispyfortHistory of the world. Everyone is guilty. Protect your own. That is what you're supposed to do... Protect your own... which isn't happening today in the U.S. it is planned, systemic action taking place along its borders. Actual, the west overall.
So, enforcing others from taking your people is historical. Romans conquered a lot of the world, but still defended their own.
The men sold their wives and daughters to them.
at 6:48 not sure about that comment in the video but it is well-known that the most slaves they took was from the Slavic world - Crimea was, sadly, a trading post for the slaves and they were taken away to the middle east/north Africa or to western Europe.
Black hair and blue eyes is common in Ireland , right?
Gorgeous people.
Same in Wales
There was a dark-haired blue-eyed rosy-faced Irish-born fellow a year ahead of me in high school, He went home to Ireland after graduation. A regular terror on the soccer pitch, as I recall, and as nice a guy as you would ever want to meet.
My Irish mother had jet black hair and blue eyes , but her skin was light with freckles . People thought she was a redhead that colored her hair jet black .
I was dark haired and blue eyed ,out of a family of twelve only two of us have blue eyes, mum and dad both brown , dads Welsh decent mums a bit of a mix i think .
Yes! My father who was Irish had that coloring. He was very handsome - the dark hair, light skin and blue eyes!
As to the slave question it’s ridiculous to think that slaves were only black. Many many slaves came from the Slavic region which were white was how we get the name slave.
Exactly. At a time when many countries were being invaded, occupied, conquered, and pillaged- taking slaves was a very common practice. And in Africa, slaves taken by tribal wars was later sold / traded to Americans. Alex Haley, the author of Roots, was very misleading on the subject. Capturing Africans running through the jungle with a net is much more appealing to a reader than the truth.
The Irish were the first slaves brought to AMERICA and considered far less worth than blacks .
You are totally mistaken. They weren't black at all. As there weren't black people in Europe. They were mostly ordinary people and warriors captures in war and raids. Both sides took slaves. And the word wasn't slave, but TRELL. The word slave came in The middle ages. And it's not from slavic, but a word comprised of Greek and Latin elements.
Irish English were. Captured
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And the English and the Irish captured Vikings. But they didn't come to Scandinavia and fight us. So we are to blame. But the point is, everyone captured the enemy and used as slaves.
I have auburn hair, hazel eyes, pale skin. 40% English, 22% Irish, 18% Scottish and 10% Scandenavian.
Very similar to me.
Me too..mostly Danish
Your comment in passing about schizophrenia and the Vikings is interesting. Would love to know more about that. I lived in the Lofoten Islands (northern Norway) in high school in mid-1970’s and had a friend who developed schizophrenia suddenly. I was aware that the majority of the local population’s term for this, translated from Norwegian, was “youth sickness”. So it was common enough that they had a slang term for it-and knew when it was, ostensibly, most likely to develop.
Hmmm…interesting. My mother is from Scotland with a wee bit of Irish. My father of Northwestern European/English mostly, some Scottish and a touch of Finnish and Danish. I have a half brother (whose mother was from Norway). He seems to have schizotypal personality disorder, though never diagnosed. My youngest son has schizoaffective and so did his father who was a big blonde-haired, blue-eyed guy. Many men in my dad’s side seem to have strange thinking. Wonder if the ‘Viking’ genetics plays into it.
I have Swedish, Danish, and Scottish. I had white blonde hair when I was young, but it turned brown about 17. I have brown eyes. My husband and son have brown eyes, but my grandson has blue gray.
My father was Scottish with Norwegian ancestry. My mother was from York in Northern England. I have Dupertryns contracture. So I know I have Viking blood!🏴🇳🇴
I have the same .Father side from Yorkshire . Mother from Scotland .Clan Mackenzie . Danish ,Norwegian and small amount Swedish .
Is that the thing where your ring fingers fold in?
Because I have that
Ancestors reminding us to hold the oars 😅
@@TheKrispyfort Yes it is. If you get it early in life it’s not too much of a problem. I first noticed it in both hands when I was 42. Now 10 years later it’s only on my right hand and only looking weird. Physically it doesn’t affect me.
@@Epsillion70 42?
Yeah that's when it started presenting in my hands, now 47yo.
Not a practical problem.
So, only another five years until Odin and Thor decide my turn at the oars is done 🤣
Sorry, I'm weird and raised in Australia. Very random senses of humour
@@TheKrispyfort Hey I understand your humour actually as I grew up and lived in Australia from when I was /
2 years old. Been back here in Scotland for 5 years now. But culturally I am Aussie. Everything else I am a Celtic-Viking.💪🇦🇺🇳🇴🏴
4.7% of my DNA is Scandinavian. I have blue/gray eyes and strawberry blonde hair. I'm already silver, so I color my hair now.
Lady let your silver shine
Embrace the silver
My sister and I are finding that the silvering of our darker strands is making our red strands stand out
Rubbish, you are 100% modern human descended from an ancient African hominid. All that dna matching tells you is that like everybody on Earth your forebears travelled around and shagged a lot.
I wonder how come 'strawberry blondes' don't look like strawberries.
Lol I’m 16% Swedish/Danish but I’ve got light brown eyes and dirty blonde hair
I’m an American from the NYC metro area. My DNA is 62% Scandinavian, 28% Irish, and 10% German. I guess I have Viking blood in me.
Yeah - but it may have been from the "Irish" where I think in New York there were lots of Irish from Dublin which was a Viking Port
Or it can be descendents from the New Sweden settlement.
I have light blue/grey eyes and my LivingDNA Viking index is 73% and mostly belongs with the Swedish Vikings that formed the Kievan Rus.
Yes! Mine is very similar I have light blue eyes as well, along with 2 other of my siblings! We have strong swedish heritage and strong viking DNA. It's so cool!
yup. Kievan Russ. ALL my female relations have blue eyes, men hazel (Norwegian/Swedish pure)
What a Foster wirh73% Scandinavian, I'm 17 % Scandinavian with 82% English Irish Welsh and Border Scots
@@Michael-fo1we No, I’m not 73% Scandinavian. LivingDNA give you a Viking index. That figure means I have more Viking linked dna than 73% of all the people they have tested.
My autosomal (last 300 years) is 100% English, Scottish, Welsh and a tidgy bit of Irish.
@@joefoster8839 We share the same surname Foster
We green eyed ones are the best looking
👈😂That’s true!
Like me 😅
Got the green eyes but missed the best looking part!
Green eyes considered evil for many places. It is said that women who engaged in magic in the Middle Ages were witches with green eyes and long noses
Meanwhile blue eyes considered a protector for so many people. protecting from bad eyes and bad peoples evil look
I have black hair with pale skin and bright blue eyes. DNA shows Irish, Scot and England. Very interesting.
That actually makes sense. It's what we call black Irish.
Black Irish is not uncommon actually. Especially if you came from the coast. A lot of facts in that video and in comments are very incorrect or the time line is so off. For a very intriguing read if you're into genetics. Look up Morocco and the genetic make up. I suggest going back before the French invasion too. You can learn a lot about the debate over being Arabic and not. I have a very small amount in my family. I'm almost positive it came from the Mediterranean side. Menorca is where my Spanish people came from. We even landed in Florida during the Spanish slave trade and fight over the state with the French. I'm very English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. I found my heritage the site
It updates info and groups of migration are in categories. It's very well done. Though I think it's run by Israel. When Ashkenazi popped up in my ancestors I got a phone call (this was about 2010 so different time) all the way from Tel Aviv. It's only 2%, but their goal is to have a very white Israel. So other Jewish lineages are not treated so well. Thankfully I didn't want to move there or even visit. I'm more in touch with my Celtic roots. I love that you're black Irish. My family is very mixed. I look like my grandma with my grandfather's olive skin tone and dark eyes and hair. My father's family is blue eyes and brown to blonde hair. They're very connected to Iceland and both north and east Europe. My father looked into their genetics and found lots of people listed. He's traced his family by genetics and found a writer in the family. It helped by watching where he lived to explain a lot. Genealogy is a big passion of mine. But many people don't give facts to line up with vikings. It's so important to go back to the bronze age.
I actually found someone who can trace most anyone genetically to their bronze era family. It's quite amazing.
I'm a mutt though. With the only area missing being Asia. I've got family all over the world now.
I think the strangest line was following my father's name into Jamaica 🇯🇲
Some sweet people live there. We are not sure if we're genetic relatives yet being as I'm mostly Caucasian. But it will be cool to figure that out one day.
Have you looked into if you have Portuguese or Spanish relatives? I was told that is where many dark hair light eye Irish comes from. Ireland was plundered and had people taken into slavery by vikings and Portuguese as well. So it's a very interesting trail of genes
The Western Europeans captured by the Barbary pirates and taken into slavery may also have had a genetic impact on the Middle East, possibly increasing the percentage of people with light eyes.
It went both ways, didn't it? There apparently were viking and Germanic settlements in North Africa and the Germanic tribes conquered parts of the italian peninsula, too. The vikings captured people from the Middle East as well
Light eyes were there already
That's the slavery no one talks about.
@@veronicalogotheti1162 Right! This blue-eye-blonde-hair-Nordic-origin stuff is just stupid. Scandinavian men have haplogroup I1, and that's not quite visible. The Berbers have some original blue eye genes that they shared with the dark-skinned-blue-eyed Western Hunter-Gatherers (WHG). Nordics were originally just an admixture between WHG, EHG and some Yamnaya dudes from South East.
@@rursus8354 you are from Asia Attila the Hun with same Celtics
From there the light eyes
The aryans and some Celts are the original
Blonde light eyes people
Massively proud of our Scottish/Norwegian ancestry. Thanks for posting....very interesting.
I live in Northern Ireland, and my husband is from here. I would say that the majority here have blue or grey eyes.
I went to Denmark in 2018 and found that, curiously, the predominate hair color was dark brown, surprisingly very dark brown, unlike when I arrived in
Minneapolis, MN USA in the 90's, the sea of people at the airport where blondes. Men, women, children I had never seen so many blondes. This is what I had anticipated seeing after landing in Copenhagen, nope.
It’s very different if you look at Danish children.
I have a bother and 2 cousins (male and female) we were all blonde as kids, but as adults my brother and female cousin both have brown eyes and dark brown hair, I have hazel eyes and medium dark hair with natural highlights and my male cousin has blue eyes and blonde hair.
It’s extremely common for Danish children to be start out blond and get darker hair as we age, so look at an elementary school class picture and 90% of the kids are different shades of blond
Ha ha so true. I live in northern Minnesota. I have reddish blondish type hair and light gray almost silver eyes. My grandparents came from Sweden. They had 12 children all blue eyed
@@Vikinggirl1679 Very striking colors, I must say.
My husband was 100% Swedish, having come from an island off the west coast. His ancestors had lived there "forever". His hair was white as a kid, but got darker and darker with age. It's kind of typical. Many blond Swedish women have to dye their locks as they age to keep their blondness. 😊
@@mememe733 oh, I found my people!!
The Vikings reached Sicily relatively early in their heyday, 860. It was their practice to bring back booty which included black and brown haired, brown eyed women. So there’s no mystery as to why Scandinavians aren’t 100% blue eyed with blond hair.
I am Sicilian. My family has mostly blue and green eyes from generations back. They mingled ways Sicilians😊
Scandinavian were never that blond’s it a myth, before the raids generic finds showed blonds especially in Denmark was a the least common and this was true long way up in history, we turned blond due to nationalism in the 19 century were the blond tall, strong Vikings myth were created and this created selective breeding drastically increasing the blond population or this is the latest hypothesis
I’m almost 1/2 Swedish. Have red hair and Hazel eyes that turn green and gold sometimes.
I often wake up in the morning with red eyes, especially after a night on the rum and cokes!
My mother-in-law who was 100% Swedish had blonde hair, blue eyes and was 5'10" in height. My paternal male line has origins in Norway and was over 6 foot tall with blue eyes and blonde hair. I am originally from Indiana, USA.
No, you are originally scandinavian
The Vikings sailed down major water ways all over Europe which is why there are so many Ukrainians with blue and green eyes. The Vikings sailed down the river Dnipro and left their DNA behind in the local women. Blond hair and blue eyes is very common in Ukraine.
but they are still slavs from Russian origins.
@@amuxpatch2798 Russians like to think they were the "father" of all Slavs but we all know differently. Kiev is much older than Moscow and Ukrainians have a different language, religion and customs. Slava Ukraine!
@@amuxpatch2798 Russians have Viking origins.
@@flowergrower1247 You take 12.5 percent of the carriers of haplogroup I1 i Russia for 150 million people, this will turn out to be 12 million people in Russia alone.There are 10 million people living in Sweden, and the carriers of haplogroup I1, 38 percent, it turns out that only 3.8 million carriers of this haplogroup live in Sweden.
@@imperskiikulak446 It would appear your data is incorrect. The top countries with blue eyed populations are Estonia and Finland both have 89%. Russia does not rank in the top 19 countries. Sweden has 78%.
I’m about as Viking as you get on my paternal line. My brother and I are both blue eyed blondes though his hair is white blonde where mine is gold. My late husband was known as a black Scot, black hair and blue eyes. A stunning look as everyone knows.
The Irish could certainly differentiate between Danes and Norwegians, as they gave the Danes names like Doyle (Black) for the black haired Danes as opposed to the blonde haired Norwegians.
Both groups have blondes and dark haired people. Black is probably less than 1%. Dark brown maybe more common.
@@DustinHawke You'll have to take that up with the Middle Ages Irish, I'm staying out of it.
Some swedes are Belgian I heard that from a swedish lady
@@user-qr9uh1fd8gWell, you probably mean "the Walloons"?
That's people coming from the Walloon area in nowadays Belgium/north France. The Walloons were ironworkers, blacksmiths, and came to Sweden and Finland during the first half of the 1600s. So quite recently.
Nowadays everyone claims to have Walloons in their family tree...
I am very impressed finally someone that knows the difference between the Scandinavian and Nordic term usually 99% mix these two up miserably, Cheers for a great vid as always, Sweden!
I have green eyes and Brown Hair im 70 percent Irish, the rest is Highlands Scottish, Swedish and Norwegian
70% Irish Wow! Shame about the rest of you!
Hey mate, from County Antrim and can see Scotland on a good day and have no issues understanding you, no captions required. Very interesting presentation. Thanks.
Thanks. Hi from over the water :)
I love the accent. I have no trouble understanding you. I'm from Arizona, but granddad was from Glasgow.
@@pennywhistle9060 Small world! I visited Arizona, Colorado and Utah in 2023. Beautiful.
Great vid, sir. Very balanced and informative. I'm also fascinated by the idea that the Vikings may have increased the rate of blue and gray eyes in the ME, which is where I'm from. It is plausible. But I just want to add that Lebanese and Syrians in particular have had the genes for blue eyes long before the Vikings had sailed and traded in the region. (Probably since the early Iron Age, according to recent genetic studies).
Thanks, I will need to look into that aspect of the Syrians and Lebanese. Very interesting
@@celtichistorydecoded One good study done by Haber et al is called "Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History". That's where they also mention that the Lebanese they tested had between 11% and 22% Steppe-related ancestry, and that this was a necessary component for modeling their dna. If I'm not mistaken, this may be one of the sources for light eyes in our population.
In addition to this, there was direct genetic input from the Romans, during the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
We do have some direct European admixture as a result, but not very much. So, it doesn't seem likely this would have been the main contributing factor.
Whites lived in that region for centuries before the Arab/ Muslim conquest of the 7th century. Plus during the crusades, many Europeans who were captured by Muslims forces, converted to Islam and stayed there.
@@aag3752 red hair Syrians are not uncommon.
Super interesting. Did early Celtic (Irish) have black hair and light eyes? I heard that that was common for pure blooded celts. Also my dad's from Greece and he said the Norther Greeks have a lot of blond hair and blue eyes because of the Viking attacks in the past.
According to genetic studies, the Greeks have Slavic ancestry, for the last 1000 years they have been mixing with them, they do not have significant Viking ancestry. Studies of Haplogroup R1a reinforce this.
Perhaps but they probably always had blonde hair and blue, green eyes it was just not that common also because of South Slavs. Byzantine historian's describe old South Slavs as blonde or something in between, lighter then Greeks but darker then Germanic tribes.
@@glory4645 Genetic studies do not find Viking ancestry in the Greeks. But if they find Steppe and Slavic ancestry related to blonde hair, Steppe people are one of the main components that form the Autosomal DNA of modern Europeans, they are found in all Europeans, also in populations of Central Asia and parts of South Asia. .
@@glory4645 The Vikings are characterized by having high levels of Steppe and high levels of Scandinavian Hunter Gatherers, the SHG component is not found in Southern Europe, but the steppe does exist in small to moderate quantities
It’s mythology that makes the world go round!
I couldn't help but notice a few of the men rowing that ship are doing more splashing than rowing. I have spent days in a canoe.
They didn't get very far either!
You are a true viking!!😂
I am mostly Swedish and Norwegian….thanks for the interesting videos! I have blue/green eyes
Proud to Be of Celtic/Norse ancestry
That’s super interesting thank you for sharing your hard work. I’m from the north of England and my ancestral roots are in Northumberland & southern Scotland, I had a dna test done recently which came back 25% Scandinavian ✨🤍
Your reddish auburn hair is gorgeous especially with your light eyes something I noticed many of the ladies had in Scotland during my travels I tried to die my hair this color and I ended up like Ronald McDonald lol. Less than .5 of the worlds population is natural redhead. It's the rarest for sure.
Recent studies say that they were a mixture but not predominantly blonde genetically. Brown and red hair quite common. I also read that blond was considered attractive so many dyed their hair and beards. Not much has changed there😂
I can't imagne how they dyed their hair blonde. It's not possible without bleach.
I’m a dark haired, hazel eyed and only 2 generations removed from Finland and Norway. But I also have quite a bit of Scots/Irish blood and I think we can guess why. My grandfather always joked Norwegian men loved to go to Finland to find a wife, and he did my grandmother lol!
In short, you mean you are a mongrel.
I have only just found out I'm in 15% Danish and Swedish in my DNA traits.... Apparently that "Viking genetics " came into my maternal family's dna in 1600's. greatly interesting for me.Thank you. Best regards from Poland 🎉❤
Viking is not an ethnicity ; it was a job or culture. Just like other nordics were fisherman or carpenters. It's like saying that all japanese were Samurais😂
Very interesting, thanks for presenting. I'm Australian and had no problems understanding your accent.
Thanks
American, and yep, no difficulty understanding!
The dark hair didn't come from southern Europe it came from native population of Scandinavia's hunter gatherers, which have dark hair and blue eyes. The blond hair, light skin and green/ grey eye color came from Corded Ware people who invaded Scandinavian countries 2500BC. They introduced R1a haplogroup to the natives I1 haplogroup, The R1b haplogroup came mostly from slaves, which Vikings brought from Britain (R1b being the Celtic haplogroup) in big numbers.
From Adams R1B LoL
@@sfjlfkjsdlfkjdsis this evidence that it was ancient Vikings who were the Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age destruction in the Mediterranean?
My grandpa somehow must've had more of that hunter gatherer DNA in him, because he's Norwegian and English, but had dark brown skin with blue eyes.
@@sfjlfkjsdlfkjds You are partially correct because the whole of western Europe was mostly Celtic at those times and many migrated north to Denmark (as Denmark is connected to European continent and Sweden and Norway is not, at least from the west side). On the other hand, Vikings r1a and I1 were busy conquering English land and were taking the local women as their wives, living behind their own wives in Scandinavia. Women in Scandinavia started to mix with the R1b male slaves because of a lack of a native men.
@@valamerkozlowski7915 Started mixing with slaves because of a lack of native men? No.
Firstly, free peoples couldn't mix with taken slaves. It was illegal. It was legal to marry a native born slave. But even then, free women would scarcely marry down.
And if you're thinking of just sex. Well, where are all the mixed babies?
There would have been way more ethnic mixing if what you say is true. But the genetic data show that the immigrants mostly kept to their own group. The diversity within scandinavia went down a lot after the viking age. Why? Because most immigration didn't mix with the local population.
If it was common in any way that scandinavian women mixed with slaves, the numbers would have looked way different.
Light hair and eyes are common in the middle east to India depending on tribe/ location. Scandinavians are not the only people with light eyes. My familiy traces it's ancient ancestry to Persia. Blue to brown eyes, red to deep black hair, light skin to very dark skin.
My family has many different ethnic backgrounds in it, but we have the most tracing back to Faroe Islands & still have family living in Denmark even today.
I was married to a man with a Norwegian background for 45 years. He was red-haired and had blue eyes. Our children are both red-haired with blues eye's as are our grandchildren and great grandchildren. I am pink white and had light brown to blond hair. My mother had red hair. I think it's hard to get past these traits!
Uploaded my raw data to Living DNA and got a Viking Index score of 26% mostly Norwegian. Makes sense.
I have a Viking index score of 67%, I have black eyes, a black beard and my eyebrows meet in the middle, just like the Icelandic Viking Egil Skallagrimson, who ransomed his head from Erik Bloodaxe, King of York, by composing a superb poem. Egil's last act before he died, in old age, was to kill the slave he took with him to help bury his treasure, to stop its location becoming known. My DNA is most similar to Danish and Swedish Vikings. Viking descriptive nicknames were accurate Kolskeggr, 'coalbeard', obviously had a black beard, Halfdan Svarti - Halfdan the Black was swarthy and, if most Norse people were blond, the use of the nickname Harald Fairhair makes no sense.
No. DNA data is clear - Irish, Serbs and Russes where "Vikings". But, viking is meaningless because its twisted a bit. I believe that name was Voiak, voenik, because it match Serbian language and its the same like reading wrongly interpreted term back in time - „Fenician“ which is in right readin agean the same- Boeniki. Because, they where soldiers and owners of trade. Its so easy.
@@СашаПетровић-н6х Viking is from the Old Norse 'víkingr', which was used in the sense of 'a raider'. It may derive from the ON 'vik', a term for a sea inlet.
@@urseliusurgel4365 as we know from ever, despite denying of writen facts, proven by DNA tests, Vikings were never "Norse", and word was not from "Norse", but word "viking" was become "Norse" with slight change. Voinik means soldier. It is descriptive as it could be - 100% match the role of "Viking". You can trade only if you have protection. Wake up. DNA test are done. We can relax and stop believe in intentionaly wrong western interpetations of facts.
@@urseliusurgel4365 most of Swedish Vikings were blond, most of Danes had red hair the dna study showed however as mentioned in this video there were lots of mixing so all colors were found, Halfdan means that he was "half a Dane" it was typically used for the first son in a mixed marriage
I have green eyes, when i was younger i was a blonde (My daughter was a blonde with greenish blue eyes and my granddaughter is a blonde with blue eyes) i also tanned very good when i was young, as i got older my hair turned a bit darker and it's naturally curly, according to genome i am 66% part of Scandinavian Vikings, my DNA on ancestry is 46% Germanic, and 27% Sweden and Denmark and 6% Norway.
Maybe dark haired Celts from Britain and Ireland can explain a lot of the black haired Vikings in Viking aged Denmark?
Black hair in Britain and Ireland is still very rare, only in very small areas in Cornwall, Wales and Ireland in their southern coasts is it found, a lot of these areas were not affected by raids by the Norse.
@@connorparker6461 Black hair is very rare in Britain and Ireland really?the places you mentioned are all very well known for having Celtic populations, the Celtic tribes were all over Britain well before the Romans arrived and the millions of indigenous people of the British Isles today are descended from them.
Modern Norwegians have between 14% and 25% DNA derived from Britain and Ireland. Swedes also have some DNA of the same origins, but at lower levels. Icelanders have an even larger proportion than the Norwegians.
@@urseliusurgel4365 Yes, we've all been mixing to some extent for thousands of years in North Western Europe, this also could have been Vikings taking some Celtic, Irish and British women back to scandanavia with them.
@@alunevans380 The hero of the most famous Icelandic saga, Njal's Saga, has an Irish name, Niall.
That was amazing! How informative on a topic I have always been interested in. Thank you for the video; I will be watching your other videos.
Thanks
I always thought vikings were black watching recent movies.
They must have had DEI requirements back then!
There may have been some.. Moors and Saracens were trading and travelling throughout Europe in 8th century.
Probably rare, but yes... some.
Most likely more common than Elves falling in love with Dwarves..
Less than what new movies portray to attract audiences.. but yes.. there were some. ..
People are people and tend to move around..
Be Well!! 😃
@@michaelfritts6249but the moors were not black,but North African
@@michaelfritts6249 again, many slaves. There was a great deal of commerce. The Viking men planted crops in the spring and went raiding or trading. Chinese silk was found in some of their houses. So, it is more than likely that there were black women slaves, and possibly even black vikings.
@@patrickmcelligott5646 Are you saying that the Norse traders or the Saracens and Moors never chose to join, travel or stay with those they visited or found a bond... but only in the circumstance of bondage?
Cultural differences are often confused with racial differences.
"Race" and "Ethnicity" are too often used as an excuse to claim difference when folks who are culturally similar seek to find a scapegoat for imagined woes.. a friendly neighbor becomes an "other".. because someone said so and an advantage is percieved..
People have always mixed.. we are human.
I agree it was not frequent.. distances made common interactions rare.. but it was not always due to slavery..
No "rose tinted glasses".. just acknowledging that there is more "gray" than "black and white"..
Be Well!! 🙂
I am noticing that there’s no mention of Norwegian/alaskan native mixes. That’s what I am. I have cousins with bright red hair and blue or green eyes. Also my youngest son has strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. He’s got very strong broad shoulders and his beard is red. He is the epitome of a “Norse 11:28 Viking”. I have dark olive skin and dark brown hair and eyes! I was shocked in the delivery room because he was so pink and white lol
They use to say that Irish people with black hair had Spanish Ancestry going back to the Spanish Armada, but genetic science debunked that. Black hair is believed to be the original hair colour of Europeans. That and light skin and blue eyes. A typical Irish phenotype. Remember the Irish are probably the most full blooded Europeans because of our location. We were never invaded by the Romans or the Moors. Many Scandinavians look partly Oriental. And so do the Slavs. Blond hair is just a recessive as is Blue eyes. But Red hair is a multiple gene trait, as far as I know ?
The Welsh are the least genetically filtered from outside influence and for the same reasons you've mentioned.
I'm nostly Slav with a small % eastern Asian according to DNA test
My DNA is 95% Germanic, 60% being Scandinavian, predominantly Norwegian and Swedish. Father had jet black hair, and piecing blue eyes.
Mother from Normandy ancestors, brown eyes.
I was born with blonde hair and blue grey eyes. My hair changed to honey blonde, by the time l was 5. 🇦🇺
Hi mate I’m 38pc Viking my ancestors come from the Scottish Highlands Denmark and Sweden I enjoyed this video I’m based in Australia one day I would like to go to Scotland and Iceland. I have Viking Swords and Scottish Swords that I made they are on my wall just in case if I get invaded one more time from the English. Regards. Laurie the Viking. From down under.
I did a DNA test it came back Viking and now I can trace my last name back 1500 years to the Viking age. DNA tests do work I am proof it does.
My husband was told he was Finnish…but they emigrated from Sweden…..this explains how that happened thanks !
Blue green eyes here, dark brown hair, lots of Irish in me, my grandparents came over as young adults..
I am German, am a reddish blonde and have greenblue eyes, with a few freckles. I'm not overly sensitive against sun though. I tan to a honey tone
In December of 884, the Frisians did their best to equalize the Viking sex imbalance. During their transition from paganism to Christianity, a power vacuum developed in Frisia that allowed a Viking infestation on the East Frisian Peninsula. The Frisians reorganized themselves, and according to period accounts, they killed 10,337 during the Battle of Norditi (this number excludes those who drowned trying to get away). I saw a while back that an utterly destroyed Viking fortress in the area had been excavated. I never heard if they determined how the Frisians disposed of the dead Vikings. If they buried them, this would be a potential genetic treasure trove.
Finland has got the most blue eyed ppl in the world. 90%. Also blond hair is very common and they are tall. Watch the video "Which country has the most blondies?"
I’m a “Longobard” Lombard.. they went from Scandinavia to Italy 🇮🇹- conquering most of Italy and ruled for 200 years. Blonde/blue eyed. So many moving parts… Most modern day Italian people have Viking blood.
I was blond as a kid. Blue grey eyes. I am 25 percent Old Norse, Viking I am Irish and British. I ended up with Black Hair and kept my blue grey eyes.
Viking is not an ethnicity ; it was a job or culture. Just like other nordics were fisherman or carpenters. It's like saying that all japanese were Samurais😂
I have Red hair and blue eyes. My father is German Father, Swedish Mother. My Mother is German Father, her Mother is Nordic, traced back to 911 when Rollo settled in France.
I literally live damn near the center of the U.S. and even though world wide Red/Blue is rare, here its ULTRA common. Due to the clans of people settling together, ALL of which conquered at one time, or anothet by Nordic people.
Viking is a verb, not a noun.
So, if you have ANY euro lineage, especially north west, your almost guaranteed to have some Northern European blood.
All that considered, we are mutts in the truest for. The dilution of purity came from Viking.
The story of the Vikings reminds me of the sea peoples 2000 years earlier.
My father is of Danish & Sweden descent derived from my grandmother- whose mother was a Dane married a Swede after immigrating to America in the early 1900. My father paternal side consisted of German natives whom also immigrated to America around the same time. My father has blue eyes, is short in stature (5’ 6), blondish / brown hair, thin nose, higher than average IQ, served in the US Navy for 26 yrs, and was very comfortable on a ship or sub for long periods of time. Which I contribute to his Viking heritage. My grandmother’s immediate family who immigrated from Denmark & Sweden worked very hard all their lives and were highly skilled, motivated, and successful- leaving a legacy that was shared by both descendants in the US and Sweden. Being a part of this family makes me very proud.
My great-grandparents were from Sweden and my great-grandmother had coal black eyes and coal black hair and I have no idea why.
Scandinavians arent the only ethnic group over here, u might have some sami or finnic blood for example.
@@nenasiek
I wonder if that would show up in a DNA test. Interesting
My Grandfather was Swedish my Grandmother. Was Irish on mom’s side. My Dad is Irish Welch French Cheyenne. Dark Auburn hair and hazel eyes
My dad's side is where we thought our Scandanavian & Viking connection came from. It was. His haplogroup if R (I can't remember the rest) And it did. Finish, Sweden, Norway etc all show up In his and my DNA.
But what surprised me is my mom's (and mine because I'm female) haplogroup, as said on ancestry, to be one of the Sami haplogroups from how I interpreted it. Please forgive me if I am in error as I don't want to mislead anyone. But one of the Sami haplogroups is U right?
We are haplogroup:
U5b1c
I've been doing geanology for 20 years now and love it. Thank you for your video. 😊
The Vikings came to Newfoundland, Canada. The site, L’Anse aux Meadows, is on the tip of Newfoundland. Greenland was perhaps also a site where they went.
I am 75% Norwegian. I have blond hair and blue eyes. My mother who was 100% Norwegian was the only blue eyed blond hair in her family. All her siblings had darker hair and brown eyes.
I'm 61% Scottish have blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin
We have a large percentage of Scandinavian genetics as well as Irish Scottish and Welsh. Almost everyone in my family has gray eyes. They look bluer in the winter but summer they get really light. Most of us also have a rare blood type.
Myself and my children of course😊 are descendants of kings and warriors from the Viking Age. At least my eyes are turquoise and blonde hair as a child, so it's brown blonde now. At least one son has an odd eye color. turquoise eyes with a brown stripe around the iris.
Im an American with English, Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish and Scottish my hair is three different colors blonde,red,dark brown,but looks dishwater blond and Hazel eyes.
I am polish I was surprised to see on my dna results that I was a quarter scandinavian from sweden mainly.
Thanks for the tip on the close captioning, I needed it. Lol!
I have some Scandinavia dna, I have green eyes with central hetrocromea, with brown freckles in my eyes 😊
Dark blonde hair and hazel eyes. DNA says 51% Europe (Irish, Scottish & Welsh). 39.2% north and west European, 7.8% Ashkenazi Jew and 2% Baltic.
I was born in Germany. I did a DNA….heavy northern European and Norway . I have green eyes, my sons have blue and grey eyes…
Regarding hair color, the Irish had two names for invaders, finngaill and dubgaill meaning fair and dark foreigners. Some scholars have hypothesized that dubgaill foreigners were from Denmark and the finngail were from Norway. Interesting to think about.
Green eyes explains my personality. Only 2% world's population have green eyes. All are Viking decedents. Green eyes are the rarest color on earth.
Me too.
@@republicunited2183 Awesome.
According to a 2020 DNA study of over 400 Viking remains, most Vikings had dark eyes and dark hair. However, eye and hair colors may have varied depending on ancestry.
I'm a Canadian "mutt", Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, Scandinavian. Green eyed and fancy free.
I'm a 5"10 redheaded blue eyed female my heritage would not suggest this coloring you have to ask what part of France, Italy and Spain would combine to produce a mostly Celtic followed by Danish, Greek, north, central and southern European with a splash of Sephardic Jew for extra spice.
Here's one you can have for nothing ... the areas of the world with the greatest resources (oil/coal/food etc) have the greatest variation in eye colour over time.
I have blue eyes with white dots and and my sister has grey. Our mom had pretty green eyes.
I believe that a potential cause for the relatively wide spread of light eye color among contemporary Middle Eastern population, is the Vandal kingdom, who ruled in North Africa and the Mediterranean for about 100 years starting from around 435 AD. This kingdom was established by Germanic tribes migrating from the north parts of the crumbling Roman empire at that time, down through Spain and into North Africa. A substantial amount of Germanic-descendant population occupying those regions for a substantial amount of time, could very likely account for at least some of these "remnants" of light eye color that we observe in these regions today.
Modern day, Norwegian here 🙋🏻♀️ Almost black hair and greenish hazel eyes, mostly Norwegian and Icelandic dna with 85%, a little Swedish and Finnish. And I saw Ireland and the Faroese islands on the dna map.
I have Germanic (87%) and Sweden/Denmark (13%) ancestry with a bit of Ashkenazi and I have grey eyes with a dark grey limbal ring. Maternal haplogroup H. I have light skin and dark blonde hair. My eyes are extremely light sensitive!
So are mine! I have light grey/blue eyes. It’s always been a talking feature.
I am Swedish 53% and took a DNA test and got the result. English,Scottland. Wales.Ireland Inuit.Sweden,Finland..
And norway ..
I wonder if you can make a video about the genetics of the berbers. I was going to ask for a video about the influence of the bell beaker culture over North africa but I didn't think there would be much to talk about, so probably a short.
Thanks, good suggestions.
Well, I'm from Algeria and it's quite common to find people with a red head/beard (red beards are more common) in the area I live in . I myself have traces of red hair in my beard and I know of some blonds in the family and I really wanted to know whether this was due to steppe related ancestry or anatolian farmer ancestry. Romans and Byzantines ruled the place for centuries, Vandals ruled for about 90 years but I'm not sure how much influence they had on the genetic makeup of the area. Many people from the north of the country get some spanish ancestry when they test their DNA and some say it's because of Moriscos who fled the Spanish inquisition.
I only know one Algerian and he looks like a Swede!
My viking side comes from my dad. He has darks brown hair and Grey eyes. My mom had no Viking heritage and she has dark brown hair and brown eyes. My sister takes after my mom with brown hair brown eyes. I am the only one in my family with bright true blue eyes and blonde hair.