What Did Vikings Look Like and What Was Their Genetic (DNA) History?
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Viking Hair Colour
0:55 How Tall Were Vikings?
2:26 Female and Male Facial Structure
3:02 Viking Appearance
3:36 Filming Location
4:15 Viking Genetic History
5:05 Viking DNA Vs Mainland Scandinavia
6:54 Danish Viking or Anglo-Saxon DNA?
7:35 A Family Affair
9:29 Support
What did Vikings actually look like and what was their genetic history?
Vikings are often portrayed as tall, strong and blonde, but how close to the truth is this? ”I have never seen people with a more perfect body build. They are like date palms and their skin is reddish," is how the Arabic author, Ibn Fadlan, described the Vikings.
What colour hair did Vikings have? Certain research has shown that the Vikings in West Scandinavia (i.e. Denmark) were mostly red-haired. However, in North Scandinavia, in the area around Stockholm, blonde hair was more common. A 2020 study however found that Viking frequently had children with people from other lands, and this led to many Vikings having dark hair as opposed to the blonde hair you would normally associate with Vikings.
It is thought that the faces of men and women in the Viking Age were more alike than they are today. The women’s faces were more masculine than women’s today, with prominent brow ridges. On the other hand, the Viking man’s appearance was more feminine than that of men today, with a less prominent jaw and brow ridges.
In fact, this similarity means that it’s difficult to determine the sex of a Viking skeleton from the skull alone, and other markers need to be used, like pelvis width for instance. Beards were common for Viking men, and men’s hair was usually long, around shoulder-length, with slaves being the main ones with short hair.
How tall were the Vikings? This is a simple question, but the answer is annoyingly complicated. The average height of a Viking is estimated to have been somewhere between 172-175 cm tall (5.6-5.7 ft), and a woman had an average height of 158 cm (5,1 ft), with access to nutrition being a key feature in this. Although finding an authoritative figure on this proved tricky. For the figures I’ve seen, this doesn’t seem particularly taller than other Europeans. Although slightly late in the Viking period, Englishmen are thought to have been on average around 1.72 m in the 11 century.
Sources:
Medievalists.net - Largest-ever study of Viking genetics reveals new insights www.medievalists.net/2020/09/...
Margaryan et al. - Population genomics of the Viking world, Nature | Vol 585 | September 2020 www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
Cell - The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present, VOLUME 186, ISSUE 1, P32-46.E19, JANUARY 05, 2023 www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0...
Ancient DNA reveals the truth about Vikings - BBC REEL • Ancient DNA reveals th...
What did the Vikings look like? The National Museum of Denmark - en.natmus.dk/historical-knowl...
Vikings, Appearance - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings
What did the Vikings look like? skjalden.com/what-did-the-vik...
How Tall Were the Vikings? Norse Magic and Beliefs • How Tall Were the Viki...
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@hondacbrification
Жыл бұрын
What is ignored in this genetic researches is actually culture for if people cremated they deceised family members or have but them on a ship or bought or such then there are no genetic matterial left from such people and the people whose bodies are find would have not necessarily be the bodies of core Norse but actually same slaves or servants. This issue appears all over the world from Rome to India where Buddhist and Zoroastrians have feed they deceised family members bodies to animals on mountains of dead meaning they left no genetic materials and being a dominant religions in the past it is a huge thing when trying to make such a bold claims based purely on the genetic material found of thousands or less people throughout the ages.
@HassanAbramowicz
7 ай бұрын
I like that this is a summary without the names of specific genes nor elements of DNA. A bit more specificity would be welcome, but naetheless 'tis good as is, for me. I made also comments outside of this thread, which supplement information that you seem to lack. Gather on Me! Listen to Prem Rawat!
@HassanAbramowicz
7 ай бұрын
Elsewhere I heard that Viking males averaged 5'8" in height, and that that was considered to have been tall. Kings were reported to have been a head taller than the subject population in many lands. Scythians and Cymbri were descendants of the escaped buffer nation southwest of Assyria, which had erst been the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Thus the reports of Saul and David being a head taller than the bulk of the population is in sequence with the same reports of Viking (Gothic/Scythian and Cymbric/Kimmeroi) kings. Gather on Me! Listen to Prem Rawat!
@HassanAbramowicz
7 ай бұрын
You called yourself "Celtic". Irish -- and this would include Scottish Dalriadic -- red-haired DNA has lately been found to have been same as Egyptian pharaohs' mummies. One tale places princely exiles in Spain and the Irish tale populates Ireland from Spain, so there are your dots to be connected. Eastern Scotland and around Moray is Flemish, from soldiers brought in by a king. Border Scots are Anglo Saxon Niederlandisch, and Frisian, because English are Frisian and Nederlandish. Gather on Me! Listen to Prem Rawat!
Many decades ago I served in Europe with the Nordic battalions. One thing I noticed right off, most of the Nordic guys and gals, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, were pretty darn tall and large. Even many of the girls were hovering at 6 foot, attractive too! They seemed larger than the rest of us. Which were UK, US, and Russian forces. Now not all of Nordic soldiers fit that mold. Some of them were brown haired and eyed and of normal stature. But it seems like they had a larger number of 6’4+ huge guys overall. I’m 6ft and I felt short. Then again go to the Netherlands and there are some freakishly tall people there too! My 2 cents for the modern age.
@deviritter5232
Жыл бұрын
Statistically that’s true, with Dutch having the tallest avg height in Europe I read - 6’2” for men. Denmark is close to that. I think the Netherlanders are of Danish decent. The language is very similar - I can make out dutch based on my knowledge of Danish - they’re closer to each other than either language is to German. Culture measures, too, show they’re very similar while Germany is nearly polar opposite.
@TA-hf6si
Жыл бұрын
As a 6'1ft (average is around 6ft for men) well travelled Norwegian (Done all continents) I can tell you I've always been taller than the vast majority of the people I cross paths with except for one time. Most of the Maasai tribe people seemed to be around 6'2-6'3ft.
@tbrown4080
9 ай бұрын
North Germans and Dutch in the north are tall and blonde
@HansensUniverseT-A
5 ай бұрын
Yeah there are many tall people in Norway, especially certain localities up north where i come from, good number of guys above 190cm, i my self just above 2 meters but lean and athletic built, it's a combination of genetics and lifestyle for sure. With a wavy long blonde hair and red beard, some call me captain red beard :D
@gabrieljosefmerrun3088
2 ай бұрын
Well ppl were shorter in the past also in Sweden
I am Swedish, Norwegian & Dutch. My Grandfather always told me that we "...HAVE ENOUGH DUTCH FOR FLAVOR...."! I was never quite sure what that was supposed to mean when I was a child but as I grew up I took it to mean that nobody quite knew how they should 'take' us, they never quite had any of us 'figured out'! All of the women in my family stand at 5'11" - 6'2". All of the men stand at 6'1' - 6'8" & built like "BRICK SHIP YARDS" was the common family reference when describing how all the males were built. Another thing I heard just as often when describing the girls & women was "....I'D BE VERY CAREFUL TO *NOT* GET ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HER...." in addition to comments about how savage 'a momma bear is if you're dumb enough to try to cross her!' & "... DON'T WORRY ABOUT *HIM*, IT'S *HER* YOU'VE GOT TO WORRY ABOUT...!" In a family reunion photo of nearly 200 of us, there were a few with darker hair but nearly every one else is blonde hair, bright blue to deep blue eyes, there are a few with green eyes & a handful with red hair, an even smaller handful with light brown hair! All of us are in the area of 6' - 6'5" there were a few over 6'5", I know that one of them, my Grandfather's youngest brother's son who stands 6'8" & used to play football for the USC TROJANS when he was in school at USC! We made the 'TALL ONES' stand in the back for the photo, LOL! I, myself, am blonde haired, blue eyed, first born of 6 children, one has darker blonde hair & one has greenish-blue eyes, the rest of us - all blonde & blue. I have 2 cousins, from my uncle's 6 children, (my father's brother) who have redish blonde hair, 2 have blonde hair & 2 have light brown hair. The brown haired 2 have green eyes, the other 4 all have blue eyes. Our last name in OLD NORSE means "HOLY OAK", this additional bit of family history has been handed down through our family - "...AS IN - 'THOR'S HOLY OAK'..." We have always understood what that means to us! Our family history has been carefully charted throughout & shown to go to the early 1500AD at a historical location where we pick up again in another historical location going all the way back to..... Saving this for Family privacy & we have traced our very first 'modern' family members to boarding a ship headed for America in the mid 1600's landing in Long Island, NY. From there going west to settle in what is now Minnesota & there is even a town there bearing our last name! The same is recorded with our last name where that ship landed in Long Island!
@letsdothis9063
4 күн бұрын
I just watched a documentary about the significance of the oak tree in Celtic/germanic culture yesterday. That's pretty cool.
I’ve a typical highland Scot body shape. 5’6” and stocky with auburn hair and blue eyes. O negative blood group. My parentage is far north of Scotland and western isles (Wick and Stornoway) Not the archetype viking but my DNA is 68% Norse and the rest is Celtic. They’re right about the good looks though !
My father was blonde pale blue eyes, and pale skinned. I did my DNA test and I have swedish and Danish, Scottish. Right on 🎉
@LuisAldamiz
2 ай бұрын
Both my grandpas were blond and blue eyed. Neither was North European. The Italian one looked like a blond version of Atila with his partial epicanthic fold.
@brawndothethirstmutilator9848
Ай бұрын
@LuisAldamiz, Tuscan? Part of my family is Tuscan and the eye shape you’ve mentioned is somewhat common.
@LuisAldamiz
Ай бұрын
@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 - Nope but from Veneto technically but ultimately Romagna. The Tarabini (later Tarabini-Castellani) are known to emerge to history in Ferrara, maybe Comacchio specifically, and serve as knights the Dukes of Ferrara and later Modena, mingling most notably (to my knowledged at least) with the Ponciani of Rome (Papal Guard commander married to Santa Francesca Romana and, generations later, the Italian Chess opening for fame). After Italian unification they migrated to Veneto with their already Austrianized overlords, they never had the guts to cross the Alps, they were Italian after all. So not Tuscany but definitely almost every land around it was involved in the making of my grandpa. I think it's just Indoeuropean legacy, which can be rather attributed to various waves from Italics to HRE Germans, all arriving from beyond the Alps and surely carrying some degree of Uralic ancestry all the way to Yamnaya and Khvalynsk cultures. In other cases I know from Spain, it's probably Native American admixture rather, they're not blond however, rather the opposite.
I have a small amount of DNA from Norway and France. A distant ancestor went as a knight to England with William Of Normandy. The Vikings went to Paris, married and ruled. The Normans were said to be the partial descendants of the 'North' men.
Interesting stuff. I'm an American and the majority of my ancestry is Dane. But i did a 23&Me test there was no surprise on my percentages it was mostly Scandinavian and German. However it also gave me my paternal haplo group which is R--L21 when I researched this it's highest concentration is found in Ireland and Scotland. So my guess is that my paternal ancestor was enslaved or adopted by Vikings and ended up in Denmark.
@celtichistorydecoded
10 ай бұрын
Thank you, fascinating
I was adopted so I never knew my ancestors but I was told by my preschool teacher(Mrs. Anderson) that I was Scandinavian. I did my DNA recently and she was correct. One of the tests showed a 80 percent direct match to a Nordic Viking from 800 AD. I am tall, pale,blonde but with red highlights.when I visited Denmark it was like going home. I loved the food,culture and the Danes spoke Danish to me even though I’m from the US.
Very cool video, thank you!
Thanks for this! Beautiful area - can’t wait to visit Scotland one day. My mothers Danish, all my cousins are there in Jutland. My DNA shows my Danish heritage is based in Copenhagen, Jutland, and there’s a big chunk of Scottish as well. We’re all taller than the historical findings, with the women 5’5”-5’11”, and the men 5’10-6’2”. But i expect everyone has gotten taller thanks to more food. Blond predominates, but in-laws brought in dark brown hair and eyes. My cousin Søren looks like a Viking poster boy with white blond hair, ice blue eyes, and sharp features. Folks in Yorkshire look a lot like my uncles. The idioms in York also translate fairly neatly into Danish idioms, suggesting some influence way back when.
@barnowl5774
Жыл бұрын
Regarding skin, I believe that the Scandanavian skin UNDERTONE is blue (versus yellow).A look at veins near the skin surface shows them to look purple (rather than green).
@albertgarcia-wm6so
3 ай бұрын
White people have a bunch of kids plzzz tell ur cousin to get started 😂 if he looks like that lol
Great watch. Thanks mate
@celtichistorydecoded
11 ай бұрын
Thank you
I live in SW Minnesota and many people around here, including me, can trace their families back to the Alesund area. I'm 196cm and while still above average I'm much closer to the average in this area than other places I've lived.
You must remember, in Scandinavia arable land was scarce. For centuries they were fighting amongst them selves over access to land? Thats a form of positive genetics, in that the weaker types are removed, and the stronger more fearsome and robust pass on their genes. The weak are thus weeded out. Add to that, these people passed on land to the strongest most capable son, not the oldest? Hence the best had the land to attract a women, and pass on his better genes. This is how over thousands of years they became bigger, and developed a martial way of life. It became a Warriors society. They are still taller and fairer then us. In 2006 me and my mate were on Holiday in Tenerife. In a complex that was all Scandinavian people. Im 6ft tall, and most the women were my height. Most the men were well over 6ft 3. Some looked about 6ft 8. Most the wee kids i saw had platinum hair. Fine people. Good natured i liked them. The women were very attractive.
@hondacbrification
Жыл бұрын
What is ignored in this genetic researches is actually culture for if people cremated they deceised family members or have but them on a ship or bought or such then there are no genetic matterial left from such people and the people whose bodies are find would have not necessarily be the bodies of core Norse but actually same slaves or servants. This issue appears all over the world from Rome to India where Buddhist and Zoroastrians have feed they deceised family members bodies to animals on mountains of dead meaning they left no genetic materials and being a dominant religions in the past it is a huge thing when trying to make such a bold claims based purely on the genetic material found of thousands or less people throughout the ages.
@robertolang9684
Жыл бұрын
the problem is they reproducing rates are low , Nordic women are sterile , they can't have many babies so Nordic population is declining , that is the reason they are taking migrants at a big financial cost
@danielnielsen1977
2 ай бұрын
I don't know about 'weaker types' and 'stronger more fearsome and robust types' of genetics. Being assertive and capitalizing by taking the initiative can be carried out and executed by anyone with the will to do so. Even so, many men lacking the awareness of the cunning nature and deceptive intentions of the people they encounter were not long for the world. Their land either. Irish/Dane🔥
@brawndothethirstmutilator9848
Ай бұрын
6’8” 😂 🧢
Thanks!! I see a lot of diverse comments about the size of Vikings. Yes. There were tall Vikings and short Vikings no different than the population of today. I have some Nordic ancestry(Swedish/Danish/German) and I’m 5’8” with an odd blend of brown, blond and red hair
@veronicajensen7690
4 ай бұрын
what the new dna study also found is the amount of blond among Vikings are the same as among Scandinavians today, there have never been a Scandinavia where everybody is blond of red haired , they also found that 97% of the remains were Scandinavian or part Scandinavian mixed with Brits, Baltics or more east a few findings from Southern Europe French/Italian , most tests were done in the areas where there was lots of trade and in Denmark where the land is connected to the rest of Europe further out in the country the result would have been a bit different and certainly in Norway it would have been much different but only a few tests are from Norway, I'm not convinced people like women looked much different than today because the dna of Danes today are pretty much the same as before the Viking age back to before Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain, but I'm not an expert, I do however know Scandinavians were taller in earlier times because the Scandinavian hunter gatherer was very tall as tall as the average Dane today about 6 feet when other Europeans were 5,2 feet illness and poor food made people shorter both in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe, this happened to more dense populated areas in Europe before it happened in Scandinavia where people tended to live more spread out
Apparently there was one at the battle of Stamford bridge it was suggested he was a giant he apparently stood in the middle of the bridge fending off Anglo saxons until one of the Anglo saxons sailed under the bridge put a spear through him I'm English have a bit of Danish and Swedish DNA so thinking it was probably a distance Viking ancestor... Great video 👍🏻 🏴🏴🇮🇪🇯🇪🏴
@celtichistorydecoded
Жыл бұрын
Love this Richard, thank you. I will need to look more into that
@CENTRIX4
Жыл бұрын
When a person dies their bones shrink significantly. Are the heights based upon skeletons factoring that bones shrink after a person dies? Germanic I1a Y Haplotype tend to be significantly taller and heavier boned than other European Y Haplotypes. All I Y Haplotypes tend to be taller and heavier boned than the rest of the European non I Y Haplotype population I2a1 Y Haplotype -- Dinaric I2a2 Y Haplotype -- German I1a Y Haplotype -- Germanic
I theorize that Doggerland was perhaps not as far back in History as currently believed, this is likely why people that seem to be separated by thousands of years and miles of ocean are so genetically similar. They are al one people, with the exception of parts of Ireland.
A local Barber would come in for coffee every day at the restaurant I worked at. He was known for his love of history. He was in his 50's in 1969. I told him my Great Grandmother was a Black Swede per my mom. She had Black hair, turqoise eyes and white skin as did my mother and different other family members. This history buff said that centuries ago, several ships of Roman soldiers crashed in the fjords of Sweden and married the Highland women, and thus were called "Black Swedes". Maybe fabrication - I don't know. Thought I would throw it out there.
What about the Rh neg type 0, blood type of the European and Caucasus mountains 🐓☠️
They were probably the same as we are today. Some short, tall, blonde, dark hair, red. I'm almost half Scottish and half Frisian, I'm 5 foot 9 inches, while my younger brother is 6 foot 9 inches, my other brother is around 6 ft., our sister is 5ft 2 inches. Two of us have blue eyes and two have hazel. All the northern people a lot thinner based on the growing season. If you want good info on what they looked like, look to Iceland, and no not Bjorn Halthor!! LOL!! They are closest to the old Norse and other Scadinavians because they were isolated being in Iceland than the people in Northern Europe now. I watch a lot of videos by Jackson Crawford, an old Norse Language specialist from the University of Boulder, Colorado.
Stop trying to kill my fantasy that all Vikings look like Travis Fimmel 🤨lol
@forbiddenOdinDottir99
3 ай бұрын
😂
Good stuff! Some of my ancestry goes back to Scandinavia.
I am half Irish and half Swedish with other ancestry in Norway and Scotland. Both of my parents have dark hair and blue eyes but I have blond hair and blue eyes with brown in the middle (they look green from normal distance). My mother is 167cm and my father is 183cm and I am 188cm
@danielnielsen1977
2 ай бұрын
It's said green and hazel eyes are the rarest. ☘️Irish/Dane🔥
Im English got 43% Scandinavian DNA from Sweden and Denmark and i have blonde hair blue eyes and i'm 6'2
The Germanic tribes mostly had red blonde hair blue green eyes with lean muscle tall excellent physical specimens this was written by the Roman historian but obviously our ancestors inter married as they moved about training our skulls facial features were bigger a dentist done am experiment he’d go to peoples who lived by there traditional diet and compared their skulls jaw structure with the same peoples who’d went on to eat the modern diet and it was seriously telling
@robertolang9684
Жыл бұрын
don't fall for roman propaganda Jesus Christ never was a blond man he was brown and black hair
I think they were tall, based on Viking burial site excavations. They always claim that they're grandparents were dark, etc., but BS. They are generally tall, blonde, good looking, and should just accept that they are good looking and have a great history. They are very accepting and progressive today, which is likely part of why they're happy people. I've always admired my Germanic friends' culture.
@TA-hf6si
Жыл бұрын
Now we just want peace, and we've been rather good at it too I think :)
@RS-ln3ns
Жыл бұрын
YES, THE SCANDINAVIANS (VIKINGS) ARE GENERALLY TALL, BLONDE AND BLUE EYED. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT GOOD LOOKING. YES, THEY ARE CALM, PASSIVE, NON VIOLENT, PEACEFUL PEOPLE. I FIND THAT THE CELTIC PEOPLE ARE THE MOST ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE IN EUROPE, ESPECIALLY THE IRISH, WITH THEIR BEAUTIFUL FACIAL FEATURES AND FACIAL BONE STRUCTURE. CELTIC PEOPLE TEND TO HAVE A FIERY BAD TEMPER BECAUSE THEY ARE A VERY EMOTION TYPE PEOPLE. ALSO, THEY ARE GENERALLY, SMALL, BOTH IN HEIGHT AND BUILD. THE VIKINGS ARE NOT GERMANIC. GERMANIC PEOPLE ARE A DIFFERENT RACE OF PEOPLE AND ARE NOT VIKINGS.
@bearthedog12
Жыл бұрын
A new six year study just came out regarding Viking genetics, alot of them had brown hair and they were mixed genetically. The Vikings were from different countries also from southern Europe, and from Asia. It was published in the nature journal. Reference: Ashot Margaryan et al. ‘Population genomics of the Viking world.’ Nature (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2688-8
@andrewheaney6858
10 ай бұрын
Enjoyed your video here mate, it’s so interesting to learn about our past , the one thing I’ve learned from my interest in my genealogy and history is how varied our actually ancestry is, if you ever wanted to see the present day descendants of the Vikings, Picts, Scotti, Anglos, Saxons , Britons , Normans etc ……. Just look in the mirror , I reckon it would be almost impossible for us not to be descended from them all !
@aevans-jl9ym
8 ай бұрын
Skeletal remains don't shrink. 5.6ft-5.7ft is the average height for that period just slightly taller than an average Roman legionary
They said the same of ancient Celts, they also said they loved to bleach their hair. 🤣 Statistically speaking the fairest of them all are the Frisians, which are not really Norse ("Vikings") although close enough maye. Unless you are into another variant of extreme paleness, which is red hair (and associated skin color, also ruddy but still quite pale in general), and then it is the Scots who win at the most carrot-like. But the one who wins at the most Trump-like character ever is some Galician peasant woman, made famous by Internet memes.
what I feel you are also describing with red hair and beards is also possibly the strong similarity with thahat of the Horselords of the eurassian steppe the scythian peoples of the blacj sea area what are your thoughts could there be a link here
@celtichistorydecoded
Жыл бұрын
Love this, there certainly could be
@barnowl5774
Жыл бұрын
I've read that the Vikings went to 'Russian'- type areas.
My paternal (Y) haplogroup is M222, it is suspected to have first arose in north-western Gaul, then became established in Devon, then, spread to North Western Ireland and southern Scotland (it is nowadays considered a typical Irish haplogroup), it seems to me a likely explanation being that my paternal ancestors did not want to pay Roman taxes and kept retreating from their advance. My maternal haplogroup has been a surprise (U5b2a1a1a), my genetic matches (living today) with common ancestors about 900 to 1000 years ago are found in Southern Sweden, and, from around 1200 years ago from Finland and Latvia. So my maternal line moved from the eastern Baltic to Sweden (during the early Viking age) then from Sweden to Britain as a part of the migration of Scandinavians to Britain during the later Viking age.
You should have way more subs bro
@celtichistorydecoded
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Luke
Easy to say tall blonde and strong was an ideal combination yet wasn’t always possible yet highly favored especially for Vikings
Well that was enlightening! We shouldn't believe the 'publicity' that's fed to us. Is similar information available about the Picts? Height, bone structure, true natural skin colour eye colour? It is it too general, ie like a lot of races; they were a mix!
One 9-foot viking burial was found a while back. How you don't already know this? Gather on Me! Listen to Prem Rawat!
Yay, it’s Steven Sunday 😁 Good video Ste, I could listen to you all day ☺️ Reddish skin? Frost bite?… or blood?!! 🪓🩸🩸🩸 Don’t know much about vikings, I only heard they didn’t take the ugly women back Lol I’ve got Norwegian dna, I still haven’t found any in my Ancestry yet though.
@celtichistorydecoded
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Stella
My dna is 86 eng/ nw Europe 6 Ireland and 8 swed/denmark am from West Yorkshire
If your from Denny/Kilsyth are it would be great to have a pint one day,
My family come from Cruden bay and New Deer . My DNA test came back as I1M253 , sub branch Z138 /a7004 .This particular branching of I1M253 is clustered around JUTLAND in Denmark and has been found in several sites dating to the Viking period and is still present in modern populations there .
Didn't they say they're actually more Slavic than Germanic. The true Germanic ppls were more Celtic than what we know as current Germans. Blond is a Slavic trait that merged with the Celtic Germanic tribes.
I had read that the average height of Vikings/Scandinavians of the time was about 5'7", which was tall for the period. I'm 5'10" which is about average for the US but, an inch under the average height in Sweden, 5'11".
North Germans and North Dutch Frisians are tall and blond too
My father's family is fromsouth west FINLAND and we have the I-M253 haplogroup (which I have read typifies Vikings)
Interesting ged match has me as west Scottish on every calculator, then its Orcadian Norwegian. Some people say I look Jewish other then my being tall and robust. My Grandfather was a Stout and his wife a Campbell. My other side is more scot irish as I am American. I was curious about my darker features I've seen other scots especially Campbell with Darker features. On a world dna calculator it says I'm 86 Scottish and rest assyrian I was shocked. No idea is this left over dna from before the celts or from picts.
13th Warrior movie was closer to the truth. With Anthony Banderas as Ibn the Arab.
Great video. Can you tell me where your scottish accent is from exacyly?
@celtichistorydecoded
Жыл бұрын
Thanks. From the Falkirk area but I have lived and worked in Glasgow
@robertolang9684
Жыл бұрын
liguria , north italy , that accent come from there
7:18 Whether one refers to or themselves as Anglo-Saxon or Viking, both are kind of a misnomer. I have never read anywhere that peoples from saxony were prominent in the so-called invasion of England. Jutes, Angles, Danes along with the frisians were however. Saxon only seems relevant to the creation of a royal line separate from the Danes. What sets them apart is their inescapable connection from their inception to the pope and Vatican. Same with the Franks. I have nothing against Saxons or Franks. It just is.🔥
While massive tall men among the Vikings, was no doubt rare, they weren’t non existent. Ivar in the annals was said to be 6 foot at 13 years old, and he was still growing, it’s believed by at least one archaeologist that his skeleton was found in England and it was 8 foot 6 inches tall, if this was really Ivar son of Ragnar he was most likely truly Ivar the feared, if it’s not him, that would mean there was a few unusually tall warriors.
Ppl were shorter than they are today. Few were taller than 1.80 most were closer to 1,70.
I live in USA, Alabama & Virginia. I am McNeal. I am female 5'9". Lots of tall people in my family, male & female. My brother has the Viking finger. He is tall, 6'5". I have 2 sons 6'9" tall. I tested last time to be 61% Scandinavian. As well as Scottish, Welsh, English & Irish. I would love to be in a DNA study. How?
@abelnodarse1841
2 ай бұрын
Hi ❤
My surname is from one of the oldest families of Galloway possibly Irish originally, but genetically I am more Scandinavian. My thought is that there is a light red skinned race from northern Europe I being one. Blue eyes by the way. As an old guy my hair went from blonde to red to blonde to grayish blond. I am American and when applying to transfer a concealed weapons permit I asked the Sheriff’s Deputy what hair color I should use gray or blonde and she replied blonde.
Can we be sure that 500 burials were all Vikings, and, if "yes", then how? Thank you. Gather on Me! Listen to Prem Rawat!
According to 23andme I have Viking DNA. I'm British/Germanic....
Viking raiding crews were basically a cross between criminal family enterprises and the football firms of the time.
I'm a Norman descendant
@messiahmatrix
Ай бұрын
My last name is Norman, I’m descended from Sir William DeWarren, who fought at Hastings.
Some Norwegians have some similarities to the Western Irish, the fatter rounder nosed big blocky headed with small eyes and curly brown or red hair- Called Brunn types or Paleo Atlantids. These are the Fir Bolg in Irish mythology and likely come from Paleolithic survivors from the ice age Irish settlers who'd later be invaded by thinner faced and blonde haired gauls- reflected as the Tutha de dannen in Irish mythology. You'll also find Borreby phenotypes in Ireland with North Atlantids and Keltic Nordids. Atleast that's my two sense research.
@Androvich91
6 ай бұрын
when the pseudo science is off the charts
@loots9821
11 күн бұрын
They sound gorgeous😂
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The irish name for vikings ? Dubh gall....black foreigner. The same etymology behind the surname Doyle.
@loots9821
11 күн бұрын
They also called other vikings Fionn ghall which is fair or light foreigners & it was describing hair colouring.
Short and strong and we are still strong. Its seriously in the genes. My genes say I am athletic with natural muscles. When i was a kid i looked like a world champion wrestler. Lol and very good at sports
Norwiegans least blue eyedof 3 comparitively . on average taller than surrounding people
Everyone was stronger in the past... in theory, because of greater physical exertion, but then you look at drawings like the shaman of Trois-Fréres and he had a massive pot belly and very thin limbs... so maybe not so much.
I'm Frisian (Netherlands..) 23 and me sez i'm 34% viking.....i'm OK with that...
What dialect is that?
I am short but blue eye blonde fair white skin but ginger beard mybe danish, irish or scottish dna
just as an aside....have you ever looked up the people of the Udmurtian Republic? I think you could trace your ancestors back there.
Why was Olaf the black,called the black?
@j.j.5731
10 ай бұрын
His black clothing
King Charles 111 is the King of Viking , so are all Sicilians from Queen Sicilia. Before King Charles ancestors took over England he already in charge of 20 countries.
Where the Vikings black, as I have seen in Viking TV series?
@loots9821
11 күн бұрын
No
They looked like me!
Look like my family! Irish Vikings
Fridthjof, skipper of the first dragon ship, was grandson of Sumblus, king of Finns. In their time. before mixing with Goths, Finns and Swedes were Mongoloid. You can see the Mongoloid strain in the East Baltic race of Sweden. Gather on Me! Listen to Prem Rawat!
Why are Northern Europeans so big now?
@jimferry6539
11 ай бұрын
Good question, I think people would say it’s because of a better diet, higher carbs etc. I’ve noticed this too though, it seems to be people born in the 90s onwards that a bigger than their relatives
@brileeka
5 ай бұрын
Humans are getting bigger with time. The vikings were actually tall compared to other people.
@loots9821
11 күн бұрын
Hormones in the food. Too much estrogen makes boys grow rapidly taller, too fast.
They looked like me
Vikings are hot
What did Vikings look like? Go to Glasgow.
All this is bs ..... Vikings were originally East Asians .... The Mongoloids like the Inuits,Nenets,and other Siberian Mongoloid races.......
Interesting for sure. Your heavy scottish accent and your flashing zipper pull is distracting.
Short & blonde.
@brileeka
5 ай бұрын
That was tall that day in age.
Could you translate this into english….
@celtichistorydecoded
5 ай бұрын
No, it's in Scottish though
@kimberlyvespa
3 ай бұрын
@@celtichistorydecodedI’ve got an old, good friend from Glasgow. No problem understanding you!
@cynsi7604
Ай бұрын
If you can’t understand his accent, you could ALWAYS hit the “CC” icon and then words come up and you could follow what he’s saying or slow it down that might help. Unless you’re just being funny.🤨 Can’t really tell online sometimes. 🙂 ✌🏻
Dude, you should use AI for narration. You are unintelligible. It's funny to hear, but I can't understand you. Maybe take some speech classes?
ye ye.. keep changing the facts.. one day you will tell: Vikings were very very similar to african pigme people.. we all know the truth..
Can we stop pretending the exception is the rule ? Half my dna is nordic the other half is celtic. Im only 5 ft 9 and 200lbs and pasty white , what do these people think im supposed to look like ?
@chrisnewbury3793
Жыл бұрын
To a 5 foot Roman you would have been a ginger giant ;)
@richardjohnston3359
Жыл бұрын
Maybe you was the runt of the litter ☺️👍🏻