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The Secret History of the Vikings: New DNA-driven research...
Discover Magazine ^ | March 2018 | Gemma Tarlach

Posted on 03/26/2018 2:49:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

More than a thousand years ago, the Vikings arrived on the world stage as swiftly as their longships cut through the waves. They raided and traded, conquered and colonized. They left their mark on four continents -- not just at archaeological sites, but also in the flora and fauna, the languages and local populations.

The Viking Age did not last long -- it's generally defined as beginning in the late eighth century and ending in most areas by the early 12th century -- but the explorers still capture our imagination today.

"The Vikings epitomized the freedom and strength we like in our heroes," says Judith Jesch, professor of Viking studies at the University of Nottingham. "They were enterprising and bold; they were certainly violent, but so was everyone else at the time -- and still are."

But despite their well-documented spirit of adventure, warrior culture and innovative shipbuilding, the Vikings still have their secrets. Questions remain about how they lived, where they traveled and who they really were.

Now, like ship captains setting sail to untouched shores, scientists are exploring a new age of Viking research. On this adventure, DNA is their map.

The full text of this article is available to Discover Magazine subscribers only.

(Excerpt) Read more at discovermagazine.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; middleages; navigation; renaissance; vikings
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full title: "The Secret History of the Vikings: New DNA-driven research reveals untold stories -- and stirs controversy."
The Secret History of the Vikings: New DNA-driven research reveals untold stories -- and stirs controversy.

1 posted on 03/26/2018 2:49:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
One nice thing that has come out of that ridiculous TV show is, new interest in the historical Vikings.

2 posted on 03/26/2018 2:51:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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New North America Viking Voyage Discovered
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | June 5, 2013
https://www.livescience.com/37189-new-viking-voyage-discovered.html

Possible Viking Settlement in Canada Revealed in Satellite Images
By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer | April 1, 2016
https://www.livescience.com/54276-viking-discovery-newfoundland.html

Searching for the Vikings: 3 Sites Possibly Found in Canada
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | April 18, 2016
https://www.livescience.com/54439-three-possible-viking-outposts-discovered.html

New North America Viking Voyage Discovered
LiveScience | June 5, 2013 | Owen Jarus
Posted on 06/06/2013 7:08:32 PM PDT by EveningStar
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View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America
MSN.com | 31 March 2016 | Ralph Blumenthal
Posted on 04/01/2016 9:28:40 AM PDT by zeestephen
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Archaeologists Closer to Finding Lost Viking Settlement
Live Science ^ | March 6, 2018 | Owen Jarus
Posted on 03/20/2018 1:38:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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3 posted on 03/26/2018 2:55:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

However they still haven’t conquered a Super Bowl victory yet. (:


4 posted on 03/26/2018 2:58:46 AM PDT by tflabo (Varmints)
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To: SunkenCiv

Coprology digs in Viking cesspits located in England reveal that the Vikings were rife with parasites. Whether or not this was a norm during that period of history was not discussed in the article.


5 posted on 03/26/2018 3:01:55 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: Clutch Martin

“Coprology digs in Viking cesspits located in England reveal that the Vikings were rife with parasites. Whether or not this was a norm during that period of history was not discussed in the article.”

Now all they have to do is figure out how vikings morphed and evolved downward into Swedes.


6 posted on 03/26/2018 3:10:55 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Clutch Martin

Everyone was rife with parasites. Why do you think life expectancy was around 30 years.


7 posted on 03/26/2018 3:31:33 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: SunkenCiv

If anybody has read the article, could they post a synopsis?


8 posted on 03/26/2018 3:35:36 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: SunkenCiv
The Viking Age did not last long -- it's generally defined as beginning in the late eighth century and ending in most areas by the early 12th century -- but the explorers still capture our imagination today.

The vikings did not die out- they melted into the crowd and took up common cause with the Templars.

For hundreds of years, before, during and after the Templars were outlawed, the descendants of outlaw Viking kings and Templar families are documented to have intermarried first cousins on from Maidstone, Kent to Bornholm Island. This is one location and there are many more.

The documentation is overwhelming on genealogial websites.

Viking/Templar families controlled Sardinia and Sicily and other island kingdoms for generations. Viking strongholds became sanctuaries for Templars. The history is out there in plain view, but academics have their own secularized story to tell. Vikings converted to Christianity were natural allies with the outlawed Templar banking families empire.

When the Templar/Viking families moved to the New World, they went for the more southerly climate - to Virginia, North Carolina and on south. Genealogical history of the Templar Viking families is secret history - its complicated and would take more time to research than grant money allows.

9 posted on 03/26/2018 3:43:08 AM PDT by x_plus_one ( I pray Gods eyes may once again gaze upon me and remind me that I am still His child.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Let me guess: They came from Africa?


10 posted on 03/26/2018 3:44:46 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: SunkenCiv
It is interesting that we find the Vikings fascinating yet they were just one in a long line of barbarian invaders who invaded civilized shores - as Germanics they were just the northern barbarians lefts after the Goths, Vandals, Suebi etc. left and went into Germania and the Roman Empire

And their impact is probably about the same as that of the Magyar, the Goths, the Bulgars, the Mongols, the Turkic peoples etc.

11 posted on 03/26/2018 3:52:00 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Bonemaker
Well the "Vikings" were the warrior-traders who went to war and trade in England, coastal France and Sicily. Many if not all settled down there -- in England after they were subdued by Aethelstan they were absorbed into the northern English (Yorkshiremen, Mancusians, Liverpudlians etc.) and into the Scottish and Irish.

In Normande they sound got franconized. Ditto in Sicily etc.

their culture was "lower" in terms of literature, art etc. compared to the Roman based cultures so they were easily absorbed. In England they influenced but even there were absorbed.

Yet the Geats and Swedes and Danes also included farmers who stayed behind -- the more intrepid migrated while the ones left were not quite so brave.

However all of that is irrelevant to why modern day Swedes are the way they are -- after all all barbarians get civilized and "weak" -- look at the Stoic Romans who became the sensuous Italians, look at the fierce Bedos who became the obese Saudis etc.

12 posted on 03/26/2018 4:08:57 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: raybbr

about 70K years ago, yes they did :)


13 posted on 03/26/2018 4:09:45 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: SunkenCiv

Could be that their boldest more be was to name an island Greenland?


14 posted on 03/26/2018 4:11:25 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: tflabo

Probably their genes have, plenty of times. ;60


15 posted on 03/26/2018 4:27:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Clutch Martin

Now there’s a degree that one doesn’t find at one of the tables on career day.

Chances are good that it wasn’t just them — they may have been the only people in England who bothered to use latrines.

“Hell, they didn’t know what a latrine was until I showed them.” — Geo C Scott, ‘Patton’


16 posted on 03/26/2018 4:29:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Jim Noble
I'm just a big tease, but felt it was fair to post a warning about it for a change. The article title was bound to suck people in...

17 posted on 03/26/2018 4:30:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Bonemaker
that's not fair, they invented those Blue Shoes.

18 posted on 03/26/2018 4:31:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Bonemaker

The Vikings drevolved into election stealing Rooskies.


19 posted on 03/26/2018 4:33:56 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Cronos
In Sicily they'd arrived via Normandy and were already Franked up a bit -- they had a two king dynasty I think, both named Roger. And the elder Roger wanted a well-rounded education, so he hired (egad!) an Arab tutor. Later on they drove the muzzies out of Malta -- Maltese being a Semitic tongue with a broad loan vocabulary and altered grammar (sez McWhorter).

20 posted on 03/26/2018 4:35:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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