646: 2/2 The Vikings were more an occupation than an ethnicity. @ras_nielsen,
Image: The discovery of Greenland Rasmus Nielsen, @ras_nielsen, UC Berkeley & Univ. of Copenhagen, computational/statistical genomics, population; in re: “Population genomics of the Viking world.” Nature magazine. 16 Sept 2020. Migrations from seafaring and new technologies Greenland before the Little Ice Age: came from Iceland, In Tenth Century, Eric the Red sailed to Greenland, settled there. Likely contact with Vineland in North America. Disappeared in Fifteenth Century. Looked for inbreeding. Very few people and they slowly died out; must have been a relatively large population. Inuit? Traits: pigmentation associated with peoples; in Denmark: dark-haired Vikings. Don’t know where that came from. Trading centers—towns on sailing routes—evinced cultural diversity. Vikings were more interested in trade than rampaging. Being a Viking was an occupation, not an ethnicity.