New research refutes myth of pure Scandinavian race (Midnight at the oasis)

University of Copenhagen ^ | Jun 3, 2008 | Unknown

[metesky]

Swedes Find Viking-Era Arab Coins

There have been at least two movies made where Vikings have a Moor with them. The Long Ships with Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier and The Thirteenth Warrior with Antonio Banderas.

[Pharmboy]

Blimey! You forgot the Picts, guvnor...

[Pharmboy]

The easiest explanation would be a captured arab girl/woman (likely of the comely variety) brought back and/or sold as a slave. She gave birth to the deceased, whose mtDNA is his mum’s while his Y-chromosome is likely Scandinavian.

[Grimmy]

“The easiest explanation would be a captured arab girl/woman (likely of the comely variety) brought back and/or sold as a slave. She gave birth to the deceased, whose mtDNA is his mum’s while his Y-chromosome is likely Scandinavian.”

According to the leftards, that means the Scandies are uniquely worthy of slaughter for ever having had bad dealings with the poor poor arabs.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[colorado tanker]

Hasn’t recent DNA research pretty much made this kind of anecdotal evidence obsolete?

[SunkenCiv]

Those are artifacts, not anecdotes. DNA is an anecdote.

[colorado tanker]

What I’m trying to get at is all this proves is there was an Arab in Denmark at this time. It doesn’t really say anything about where the Scandinavians came from in their migrations north after the last ice age.

[SunkenCiv]

Exactly so. That there was a Semite (Jew?) among the Scandinavians doesn’t really undermine a myth, because any such myth was long gone long ago. :’)

[MeanWestTexan]

Especially since, given the time frame, he was probably Jewish.

[Ciexyz]

“It’s a small, small world after all....”