Are All Scandinavians Descended From Vikings
. In spite of all this however Europe has never been and will never be a united socio-political-economical reality. Some were mercenaries willing to fight for hire much sought after in the Byzantine Empire.
This means that not only were these raids violent but it was violence perpetrated by non-Christians towards Christians and was perhaps viewed as exceptionally egregious for this reason. At Family Tree DNA your Y DNA and full sequence mitochondrial matches display a column titled Genetic Distance. What were a contingent of Danish English and Russian Vikings doing guarding the Byzantine Emperor at the height of the Viking Age.
All living humans who descended from Africa have about 2 Neanderthal DNA and this includes Scandinavians.
The two species met and started having reproductive relationships in modern-day Israel some 60 000 years ago before ultimately clashing and resulting in the demise of the Neanderthals. Viking metal features the Vikings as its subject matter and for evocative imagery. But not all Scandinavians who ventured out of their homelands were raiders. Interesting Fact About Viking Culture - Nowadays we tend to focus on trivial things such as staring at our phones for hours on end or spending more time searching for a show on Netflix than actually watching Netflix.
