Genetic evidence points to distinct Viking settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland
Geneticists have studied the distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups on the Faroe Islands, known to have been colonized by ...
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What drove some Vikings to leave their homeland?
It was their magnificent longships that enabled the Vikings to set sail from their ... open seas and travel thousands of miles to the British Isles and beyond. Their ships were big enough to ...
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Norway excavates a Viking longship fit for a king
Norway In the 9th Century the Vikings started using sails, but they still needed strong rowers too for their epic voyages. In their longships they travelled all around the British Isles ...
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Viking Colonizers of Iceland and Faroe Islands Had Different Origins, Study Finds
A study published in Frontiers in Genetics reveals that the Viking settlers of Iceland and the Faroe Islands came from ...