But we may not typically think of Viking age Scandinavia as a hub for migration from all over Europe. In a study published in Cell, we show this is exactly what happened. The Viking period (late ...

A new study reported in the journal Cell on January 5 captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 ... patterns and gene flow during the Viking age (750–1050 CE).

But the Viking Age (750–1050 CE) brought a twist. The team discovered that by the 8th century, a wave of central European ancestry had swept into Scandinavia. This influx reshaped the genetic ...

Germanic-speaking people move north into Scandinavia before the Viking Age The team then used the method to uncover a later additional northward wave of migration into Scandinavia at the end of the ...

But the modifications have been found only on the skulls of three Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066) women buried on the now-Swedish island of Gotland and nowhere else in Scandinavia, which indicates ...