The following excerpt is from an interesting article posted in the March 9, 2014 edition of dailymail.co.uk:
- Around 930,000 people can claim to be of direct Viking descent
- A study compared Y chromosome markers to estimated Viking DNA patterns
- The Viking DNA patterns are rarely found outside Scandinavia
Almost one million Britons alive today are of Viking descent, which means one in 33 men can claim to be direct descendants of the Vikings.
Around 930,000 descendents of warrior race exist today – despite the Norse warriors’ British rule ending more than 900 years ago.
A genetic study carried out by BritainsDNA compared the Y chromosome markers – DNA inherited from father to son – of more than 3,500 men to six DNA patterns that are rarely found outside of Scandinavia and are associated with the Norse Vikings.
