Comments on: Viking DNA Tests: Discover Your True Scandinavian Ancestry

By: Erik blood axe

Erik blood axe — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 01:38:59 +0000

Unfortunately a very sad case, vikings and Norway have a great history, and far from being a backwater country, its a very advanced country. Very Liberal and unlike some countries actually cares for its people. Vikings were explorers and traders. Sailing across oceans to America 500 years before Columbus. If you check your history in so called civilised countries they crucified people and burned down whole villages and took slaves for profit. Romans and Norman’s. Great example of civilised people

By: Noah

Noah — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:56:02 +0000

Indeed John seems like a party pooper

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:52:58 +0000

In reply to David. Yes, I agree with David. Appears that ‘Viking’ stirs some to this very day albeit centuries since landing in Britain.

By: JMK

JMK — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:04:06 +0000

In reply to John. That’s some size of a superiority complex you appear to have…you must be English (genetically, at least), probably Saxon, but culturally Oik. ;0)

By: Don Jacobsen

Don Jacobsen — Wed, 03 May 2023 03:37:08 +0000

John,

How many bananas do you eat a day?

Don

By: David

David — Tue, 02 May 2023 21:36:54 +0000

In reply to John. "Norway is an odd backwater in Europe, lost on the periphery of civilisation, struggling in one of the world’s least self-sufficient landscapes." Wow, you couldn't be more wrong. Norway is one of the richest countries in the world per capita. They have one of the lowest unemployment rates Norway is one of the greenest countries. Least self-sufficient landscapes? Oil, natural gas, fishing industry, crabbing industry. Yes, the Vikings were brutal, just like all civilisations have been at one time or another. They also revolutionized international trade, invented the keel, sundial, compass (China invented it earlier but it wasn't known), and sailed to America 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 02 May 2023 15:27:24 +0000

In reply to John. You must be real fun at a party !

By: John

John — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:02:39 +0000

Pretty much all genetic diversity in European human populations existed tens of thousands of years ago. The pretence marketed by PR professionals that genome sequencing shows what % “Viking” or anything else lurks in an individual’s genes is quite laughable and blatantly daylight con artistry, a scam to get folk to part with their money. Unless your ancestors were wilfully inbreeding ad infinitum up to your grandparents, the integrity of a genome doesn’t survive much for more than a generation. You’re more closely related to a stranger driving a local bus than to some distance “Viking” barbarian. Claims a DNA test shows how much of a “Viking” or anythings else you are is nothing but a very dodgy, untestable hypothesis glossed over by profiteering corporate PR professionals promoting “shareholder value”. Classic “Lutheran work ethic”.

By: John

John — Mon, 01 May 2023 14:11:38 +0000

The so-called “Vikings” were Norse pirates with, I suspect, more Neanderthal DNA than the average European. They expressed a pathological greed that motivated them to raid defenceless European coastal communities, raping and pillaging along the way. Many ordinary Norse actually became refugees, escaping the “Vikings” by fleeing, e.g., to Britain and Iceland. Any attempt to romanticise so-called “Vikings” expresses very odd cognitive bias. Just the Nordic propaganda machine coughing up more fantastical nonsense. What happened to the “Vikings” in Norway and why was there minimal social development for centuries in Norway? Even to this day, Norway is an odd backwater in Europe, lost on the periphery of civilisation, struggling in one of the world’s least self-sufficient landscapes. Ironically, one of the most xenophobic populations in Europe, but wholly dependent on the generosity of foreigners. If I had any “Viking” DNA, I’d keep it quiet. I think I’d prefer to be a lot more proud of the >98% I share with chimps.