A genetic study of Icelandic natives found a genetic variation in 80 people similar to a variation found mostly in Native Americans. The genetic code was traced back to four women who lived around 1700. But the history of Iceland leads experts to believe the gene must've entered the population hundreds of years earlier. The simplest answer so far that fits the facts is that some Viking brought back a Native American wife from North America, who then bore the first Viking-American child in Iceland.
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"We know that Vikings sailed to the Americas," said Agnar Helgason of deCODE Genetics and the University of Iceland, who co-wrote the study with his student Sigrídur Ebenesersdóttir and colleagues. "So all you have to do is assume … that they met some people and ended up taking at least one female back with them.
"Although it's maybe interesting and surprising, it's not all that incredible," Helgason added. "The alternative explanations to me are less likely"—for example the idea that the genetic trait might exist independently, undiscovered, in a few Europeans.
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BTW, Miss C, the word "must've" in that article was jarring. Just pointing it out.
...And even nowadays from time to time you can read that some perv has put his private parts in some household-appliance where the private part does not belong. Nowadays that mostly would lead to some unvoluntary visit to the hospital on the part of the perv- Back that that could lead to new kids....
I mean, don't the Sami people of northern Scandinavia and some tribes in northern Russia already share a genetic code with Native Americans?
Look at Björk, for example, does she look "Viking" to you?
Anyhoo, while Vikings had slaves they could buy or earn their freedom which is a more likely explanation of interbreeding that raping the dishwasher.
Well at least they wouldn't have taken the airplane. That's for sure.