Posted on 05/30/2011 1:12:10 PM PDT by decimon
January 10, 2011
By Didi
A new study suggests that some Icelanders may be direct descendants of a Native American woman. If this is true, then the Vikings in fact had substantive contact with Native Americans, an unestablished hypothesis until now, and were the first people to bring a Native American to Europe.
The Vikings settled Iceland in the 9th century, and it is now a country of a little fewer than 300,000 people. Since that time, the Icelandic gene pool has remained largely homogenous as a result of long-term isolation. That, combined with Icelands meticulous record keeping of its peoples genealogy, makes studying and verifying Icelanders genetic make-up an alluring draw to researchers interested in genetic studies.
One such researcher recently published a study in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, analyzing the DNA of Icelanders to determine that a mysterious . . . . DNA sequence (that we name the C1e lineage). . . , carried by more than 80 Icelanders, can be traced through the female line to four ancestors born in Iceland around 1700. There is good reason to believe that the C1e lineage arrived in Iceland several hundreds of years before 1700.
The C1e lineage can be found in both Native Americans and East Asian populations. However, it is more than likely that the C1e lineage found in Icelanders is linked to Native Americans and that this link was created as far back as the year 1000 A.D. when the Vikings settled in Newfoundland.
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Hånky pånky.
Ancient Greenland Mystery Has A Simple Answer, It Seems
Christian Science Monitor | 11-29-2007 | Colin Woodward
Posted on 11/29/2007 10:26:32 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1932354/posts
LOL...YUP
Maybe a little Hokey Pokey too.
Høkey Pøkey.
Maybe Hokey, but no Pokey?...
No doubt those wimpy Vikings took their cue from all the starving Eskimos....
No no no, it isn’t your wife’s alarm clock that brings the sun. It is my cat! He meows for breakfast and voila! he brings the daylight.
We shall see - its unplugged so y’all can sleep in tomorrow! ;-)
The Saqqaq, mentioned in the article, their mans closest living relatives are the Chukchis, people who live at the easternmost tip of Siberia.
It’s interesting. I ran across something just today about how Eric the Red gave Greenland it’s name as a clever marketing ploy. That it really wasn’t a green land but he wanted people to move there to build the population, so he named it Greenland to make people think it was a nice place.
Now, it happens that I remember this little “fact” from before all the AGW BS got started. But this study confirms the theory I came up with to resolve the marketing theory with what we now know.
I think historians couldn’t figure out why people migrated to what they could only see as a barren, cold place that Greenland is today so they worked out a pretty good explanation with the “marketing” thing. All the pieces seem to fit. In truth, back then they just had no way of knowing that Greenland had actually been green back in Eric’s day.
But here’s the twist, NOW AGW nuts point to the “marketing” scam as absolute proof that that Greenland was never warm. Getting liberals to acknowledge this factual study will be like.... well... getting libtards to acknowledge any truth.
Temperatures in the fifties aren’t bad if they are accompanied with some sunshine, but that isn’t the case.
Dont Do it, you fool. You will send us all back to the DARK AGES!
At least these guys admit there was a Little Ice Age, which implies a warm period preceded it. That's better than the Mann/Hansen posse.
Well, according to #41 youse guys showed up in Iceland and helped the population there after leaving Greeenland.
;)
Slightly off topic ...
We're already on our way. Its called muslim appeasement. Look around you. Why are we in this hand basket and where are we going?
At least if my theory is correct we can sleep in. ;-)
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