World's largest ever DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren't all Scandinavian (IMAGE)

St. John's College, University of Cambridge

World's largest ever DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren't all Scandinavian

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An artistic reconstruction of 'Southern European' Vikings emphasising the foreign gene flow into Viking Age Scandinavia.

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Jim Lyngvild

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