Blonde and blue/grey eyes. Just like 80% of my relatives. I have done some research.. On my mothters side: Have come back to 1705 where a forfather participated at the battle of Narva. On my fathers side a shoemaker in Uppsala at 1658
@@swedishgooner6339 my family was there to ,, Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld Du har en koppling till Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld. Kortaste släktskap genom relationer Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld is your first cousin once removed's partner's first cousin thrice removed's husband's great grandfather's wife's second cousin twice removed's 1st husband.
GREAT VIDEO, GREAT SUBJECT very revealing, I'm a native East Coast Spaniard with I1 haplogroup, (Blue eyes ,Tall, Broad, Pale, blonde beard, resistant to cold, carnivorous diet...) I did two genetic Ancestry Tests to find out why my family always joked why they looked so "Germanic/ Viking" for the average Spaniard. Both said I had more North Western and Eastern European than I thought but then I keep researching... AND EVEN thou, my family surnames are extremely regional and haven't moved from this Costal area between Norther Italy/ South France to the South East Iberian shores of the peninsula... I have 5 different ethnicities, but the astonishing thing is that I'm not even 45 % Iberian, and that Iberian Subgroup Goes Up to Northern France for some reason, with its own subgroup, Also 15 % Irish, Scottish & Welsh, 15 % Balkanic, 15% Italian and 10 % Eastern European something It says im more similar genetically to Coastal Spaniards, Basques, Catalans, Andalucians, Galicians, ... that to interior Spaniards, WHAT did my ancestors came by boat? and Raided all the Shores of Spain or Something XD Anyway being I1 (I-Z60, specifically nations with this subgroup, SWEDEN, GERMANY, ENGLAND) in the Iberian peninsula being a native is like being an Unicorn, I didn't know it was associated with Viking haplogroups, WTF im doing here? WHEN did my paternal ancestor came to Iberia? 😂 😂 Keep up the Good Work, mate : D
God bless you Swedes, please keep fighting to save your nation from invasions and subversions. I love you all, because believe it or not I have part of your ancestry for some reason IN ME, signed: Some Blue Eyed Pale Tall Dude native from Spain's East Coast with your paternal haplogroup I1... :D
@@JessicaJohnson-vp9mt : D , Thanks for making time to comment something positive, Im really happy to hear that, . Thanks, also i want yu to know. Not all Spaniard are Retard Far Left socialists also, ... only 80 % XD But i want t know if that statement is accurate or if Im just an outlier, Thats why i got the DNA tests BUT Southern Eurpe is for better or worse more naturally Ethnically Diverse since even prehistoric times. For example I have 5 main European ethnic Groups Adding that Spain is 45% Mountainous Region and Many diferent gorups come here and create enclaves of their own culture or ethnic whatever i think... Thats why your Visigoth ancestors between other Northern Tribes came down here, Oh wait, those were my ancestors, maybe, haha dont know... Have a great Day, take care, Much love From Spain, also im glad winter aproaches, i dont like the heat XD
I’m an American with a mixture of ancestry from all over Europe. I knew I had a bit of Swedish ancestry, but the coolest part is being of mitochondrial haplogroup V, which is fairly common amongst the Saami!
people in general dont know that! not outside of sweden! we have also 3 protected minority in sweden The Roma Sami and Tornedalingar. im a bit from sami culture
5 protected minority groups, you forgot swedish-finns, romani and Jews. Also Saami are not one of these, but considered native, which is stupid since tornedalingar aka kväner, aka mienkäli are just as old.
@@tonynordlander9626I find Europeans and whites so weird. Why are you all so desperate to be anything but what you are? It’s weird and off putting! You are a Swede and you’re so ashamed you claim to be Sami because it’s not white. I’m so sorry you hate yourself this much!
@@robertodebeers2551 look for the video of the simbology of the blue eyes in Europe or something, now i cant remember but it was assosiated with something good
Swede here, who has a lot of family from around Finnerödja (which literally means Finn-cleared land) in central Sweden, named so from the forest Finns you mentioned briefly, who were brought in by the king (of Sweden and Finland at the time) from economically depressed eastern Finland (maybe Russia today?), to turn unproductive forestland into more productive agricultural land, thus broadening the tax base, etc. I believe the immigrants who settled in Sweden were provided with some startup capital and tax exemption for a few years. Sweden's best strawberries come from the area, but maybe I am biased.
89,2% Scandinavian DNA, 9,9% Finish DNA and 0,9% Inuit DNA, according to MyHeritage. 85% Scandinavian DNA, 14% Finish DNA and 1% Baltikum DNA according to Ancestry. I am born and live in Sweden. I also have Sami ancestry on my fathers side.
@@swedishgooner6339 Vem har skrivit att det var konstigt, samt kunskapen att dagens Finland under större delen av dess tid var en del av Sverige, och att stora delar av de baltiska staterna också låg under svenskt styre är väl känt för flertalet som kan något om nordisk historia, däribland jag.
A FinnishSwedish Viking here from Ostrobothnia Finland-Vörå Maternal Haplogroup-H1 Paternal Haplogroup- I-L258 23andMe estimates: 81.8% Finnish Genetic groups: -West-Central Coast of Finland 14.5% Scandinavian Genetic groups: -Arctic Norway -Eastern Norrland -Easter Svealand and southern Norrland -Western Svealand I have more Neanderthal DNA than 79% of other 23andMe customers. less then 2% of my DNA is Neanderthal. Enough that both my knees need operation 👍
Well it really really depends. Its origin was before Vikings. Altho i would agree that it got bigger during the viking age. The old names for Sweden was Sweoland or Sweorice. But we didnt really call ourselfs anything before that. It was just "Northerner" bascially. Same as Norway. Wich was "The way to the North" or something like that. The old name we kinda still use today but at the same time not, was Svea Rike. Our mother was Svea. When it comes to mythology and stuff like that... Its hard to pinpoint exactly where Sverige has its origins from since its so far back and we really didnt write anything down before viking era.
According to some the name comes from the tribe svejoner wich can be translated to svine/boars. That can explain the mythology about the people being closely connected to the god Frej.
As an American whose family roots date back to the mid-1600s on my father's side and the early 1700s on my mother's, my genetics are largely representative of colonial America. When I got back a 23-and-Me report that showed a tiny admixture of Scandinavian, I had to sit down and think where it came from. Yes, there were Swedes in North America in the 1600s, but I suspect the admixture came as part of one of the last waves of Northwest European immigration: the Irish.
We're all that way. My ancestors got their start in colonial Virginia. Through my Scottish side and English side, I've got quite of a bit of Danish and Norse ancestry.
The biggest immigration of Swedes to the US happened in the 1800s not the 1600s. Sweden was extremely poor in this period and famine was a huge problem.
There's a lot of Scandinavia in N England...I can even say that possibly the southern drawl comes from N English dialects, whom until 18th c were effected how east-danes spoke engllish. When people speak english iin Skåne, it sounds like the drawl. Compare with Hasse Andersson Kvinnaböske Skåne's Kenny Rogers...
I am a native Spaniard and was strange for me to find in my DNA 2% Scandinavian, 2,2% Finnish and 1,6% Baltic. I know we got some Visigoths here but the traces left are not significant.
It might come from France and the Normans who were decendents of vikings settling in what is today Normandie or the fact that Vikings had several expeditions and documenred sieges and attacks on Seville, cadiz, Algeciras, Murcia and other locations. There are probably a lot of precens never documented in Spain. Most likly they spent time in basque country, Asturias and Galicia. Or your ancestry is just more recent
Was that MyHeritage? I wouldn't take the old MyHeritage results seriously. They were updating and did start but have stalled at the monent. Hopefully they will roll it out soon.
BRO I'm a native Spaniard from Valencia, all the surnames from my direct ancestors are extremely regional from the middle ages...("Catalan/ Valencian/ Balearic " ) to a point i haven't found even "Castilian" surnames. However the tests I did told me, between other stuff, I have direct paternal ancestry from North Western Europe. My ( Y ) haplogroup is I1 ( I-Z60 to be specific ) which begs me question ¿WTF im doing here XD. ? I know there is like 10% of male Spaniards with "I1 Proto-Germanic" haplogroup, and that the most common line in the rest of Europe is the R1b subgroup associated with the late Indo-European migrations etc... so its not impossible to be a native European with a foreign haplogroup from another region mixed with the natives... However my Genetic test didn't specify direct Scandinavian ancestry: - 23andME said I have at least 20 % Broadly North Western European ( which includes Scandinavia) - My Heritage didn't had that category BUT the ethnic groups I was matched with were of north western - eastern European ancestry, or received historically lots and lots of migration from Northern Regions of Europe. Ex: - 15 % Irish, Scottish and Welsh (no Anglo-Saxon) - 15 % Balkanic which as we know is a broad region with lots of groups - 15 % Italian Anyway even thou the different company Tests didn't clarify or match in the NWE ancestry, and knowing the data models change, I still trust them to some extent because ONE thing both MATCH almost perfectly was my IBERIAN ancestry which I was surprised to see it was JUST 45 to 48%... Its interesting to see im Genetically more close to North Spain, East Coasts , but also Basques, Galicians and French people than anyone in the main land. But the other weird thing that i couldn't interpret was that my IBERIAN subgroup occupies for some reason France and Germany up to the North over Normandy, Netherlands etc... This group is called "Iberian people from France" or "French people in Iberia" ?¿? I don't understand this feature... I only know my families had lots of the "Germanic phenotypic body plan" ( taller, broader, paler, blue eyes, fuck i even grew blonde hair on my beard...) And they always joked on how "Viking " they looked way before the Internet or knowledge of this... Which YEs compared to the average looking Spaniard... well I get confused with tourists sometimes and i have to explain them im a native XD, ( I don't think i look so "alien" but whatever... ) This still puzzles me, because my Specific haplogroup is more common Sweden, Germany England... not Spain. And my Paternal mutation I-Z60 appeared in Northern Germany Bronce Age 2050 B.C according to FamilyTreedna I'm really interested in knowing your data and experience on what you learned. This is a very interesting subject. And I hope we learn more of our legacy and future. Un placer hablar con alguien tan cercano interesado en estos temas. Dios te Bendiga, un abrazo y Viva España. ❤💛❤
Another great video filled with detail and an excellent presentation, thank you. So I’ve taken probably to many dna test and played around in some calculators. The results I get from the main players, such as 23&me, Ancestry and FTDNA, show up as Norwegian, British and Swedish. British being mostly English with some Scottish, depending on the company, and a little Irish, and Welsh. This is more or less what I new about my family. Now when I get into some of the other companies and calculators, that’s when things like Balitic, Asian or Native American, most definitely Sami, start to show up. Hints of Roma trail as well. The biggest take away though is the high Celtic dna I get quite often in these calculators, which have their biases and limitations, but when you see a continuous pattern and then studies and videos like this come out, it makes sense. Celtic from my British, Celtic from a bit of German and French I have and then Celts in Sweden and Norway. Man exciting, but exhausting sometimes. 😂 I hope by sharing my findings and videos like this will help people in their ancestry quest. Thanks again:)
Do you know how barbaric? In the video he mentioned a British- Irish woman found in a rich grave, as proof of not all British- Irish being slaves. But knowing slaves were burrid with their master, I looked up what the custom was. Ibn Fadlan wrote in 922 about a chief burial in South Sweden. One female slave volunteered (dont think it was always the case) to go to the afterwold with her master. She got better treatment the days before the funeral. On the funeral the Chiefs nearest male friends and relatives had sex with/ raiped the slave and told her to pass their greetings. Then she was brought next to the Chiefs corpse, intoxicated, stretched by both arms and legs by 4 men, raped by the same 4 men, had her belly cut by a knife between the ribs and strangeld with a rope to death. Then the 4 men and death woman left the boat and they set it on fire. So yeah, extremely barbaric!
Gemmel is of Danish origin ...it means ...hidden or concealed. During the Viking Age... Denmark was huge , compared to Sweden , Denmark is the first United Kingdom in the world...i say united, cause the the Vikings was tribes ..some bigger then others , but they all did have their own King. Gemmel is not a common last name ..in Sweden today . But a lot of elder Viking names , you have to search around Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and even Finland to understand them . But Gemmel ..is an old Viking word .
Not the first kingdom, but the oldest flag in use, the oldest royal family still on the throne. It also was not just about tribes, but families (ätter), often they intermarried, and fought each other like when the Swedish king Sigurd Hring became king in Denmark.
As a Dutch person with a Spanish dad I considered myself half Dutch half Spanish. After a DNA test I found out that my Dutch is really a mix of Frisian Danish Norwegian Swedish and a whole lot of English 😂..the Spanish side came out as 50% Iberian. Something that surprised me most really because my dad had some foreign ancestors we know. So it would mean that my dad was a 100% Iberian? Something I think not to be plausible.
Iberian equals Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and perhaps also some Basque. So the test didn't distinguish between these when discovering that your dad is Spanish.
@@rursus8354 No it doesn’t distinguish between modern borders. (I know what Iberian means 😄 when I say Spanish I’m not talking about the modern borders of Portugal and Spain.) And some of my ancestors are Catalan, not surprised they came out as Iberian. I’m talking about Arabian, Jewish and native American and Philippines roots, when I speak about foreign ancestry. No trace of them.
This are totally wrong! Oldest findings after humans in Sweden are as old as 13-14000 year old. The history in Sweden started way before the last ice age. The findings were found in Finjasjöns at Mölleröd. In Dalarna there are human findings brunt skull dated as old as 9000 year they are caller Brandgravar but findings as old as 10 000 years have been discovered. So please do your research.
Yeah..People were stopping by and living in the southern parts way before all the ice melted away. If not permanently then at least during the summer months.. And returning to the mainland and doggerland during the winter. The southern tip of Scandinavia could only be reached by boat back then.. As there was no route in the north east yet.
Lycka till med studierna i Svenska! Jag har alltid undrat hur svårt svenska kan vara att lära sig för en engelsktalande. God luck with your Swedish studies! I have always wondered how hard it would be for an English speaker to learn Swedish.
I'm a sweed with blonde hair and Grey eyes. I have 4% Neanderthal DNA. I believe my grey eyes, my father's red hair and green eyes, and my mother's blue eyes are all Neanderthal. I also have scots/irish DNA. I don't know how to find. Y haplogroup. Another test maybe
I'm a Finland-Swede from Ostrobothnia, Finland, with mostly Swedish ancestry (but I also have some Finnish ancestors from South Ostrobothnia, who switched to Swedish and Swedified their names in the 1500s and 1600s)
I am Norwegian, and a quarter Danish (father is half). My DNA also show from Sweden, which is not uncommon ofc when you share a long border that have not always been constant, and also seeing that DNA is not strictly "Norwegian or Swedish". I am probably genetically closer to western Swedes than to western Norwegians, judging from my family tree history. Talking about borders and DNA though, much of the 'Swedish' ancestry I have is pinpointed to southern Sweden, which I believe is because much, if not most, of my Danish ancestry stems from Danish Scania. I have read about my ancestors in history books, that fought in the Scanian wars. So thats quite interesting. Also I am a tiny bit Forest Finn (from mothers side). So I feel well represented lol 👍
Swedes are tall good looking people so different from the rest of the world. This is best explained by visitors from other planets who like landing in the northern parts of the earth.
They must be the remaining population of Atlantis..cuz today most of Nordic i1 dna lost to R1b and R1a..they were huge and tolerate milk ..no neolithic dna tolerate milk..either they were a tribe like R1b
Think sex-toy shop is a better comparison then tinder. The slaves normaly didn't become their partner. In the video he mentioned a British- Irish woman found in a rich grave, as proof of not all British- Irish being slaves (treller). But knowing slaves were burrid with their master, I looked up what the custom was. Ibn Fadlan wrote in 922 about a chief burial in South Sweden. One female slave volunteered (dont think it was always the case) to go to the afterwold with her master. She got better treatment the days before the funeral. On the funeral the Chiefs nearest male friends and relatives had sex with/ raiped the slave and told her to pass their greetings. Then she was brought next to the Chiefs corpse, intoxicated, stretched by both arms and legs by 4 men, raped by the same 4 men, had her belly cut by a knife between the ribs and strangeld with a rope to death. Then the 4 men and sermonial woman left the boat with both corpses, vepons, slaughtered animals and what else needed for the afterlife, and they set it on fire. Those 10 penetrations did not lead to more British-Irish genes, but the rest of the female slaves were probably penetrated just s much. Maybe the slaves that volunteered to die, got some benefits for their kids, because the kids became normally slaves as well, even if it was the chifs'. Guess this was custom all over Vikings' Scandinavia.
I'm Swedish, born here, but some of my ancestors where Vallons (blacksmith people from Belgium) and my grandfather (my fathers father) were born in the village of Iglau in then Tjeckoslovakia. His father were born in Germany, i am also related to the noble family "Uggla" which in Swedish means "Owl". the Swedish musician Magnus Uggla is also related to this noble family so i am related to him as well. Also i am related to a former king of Sweden (Karl XIV Johan).
Your discourse on Swedes genes was very interesting. My Y Haplotype is I 1m253 with a sub type of I-z58 haplogroup. My X female is H- I5. I am a descendant from very first English and Scottish settlers in the Jamestown years. Does anyone else have this background???
I am 1IM253 Sub branches Z138 /A7004 . With Jutland being the likely origin of an common ancestor . My traceable history is in North east Scotland with family legend being we got left behind after the Danish armies defeat at the battle of Cruden bay in 1012 . I am an direct ancestor of Birger Jarl who is my 32nd great grandfather who was Swedish .
Thank you for this information. You spoke of Italy coming into the gene poll in the SW part of Sweden? I am 60% Italian from the Levant, Egypt dynasty and 29% Sweden,. and UK. Can you tell me alittle where I should research this?
93% Scandinavian, 6% Finnish and 1% Baltic. My DNA also shows that I mainly originate from the area where I currently live in western Sweden, close to Norway. But research has shown that I do have an ancestor born in Lübeck 1316. He was an armsman in Schwerin, councilor in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and my 15th great-grandparent. So I guess we wheren’t all farmers in Sweden. No, they where also nobility, merchants and priests. One of them lost his head in the Stockholm massacre in 1520 (”Stockholms blodbad”. We haven't got our confiscated property back after that "incident", by the way). Whether they were allowed to keep their heads or not, I'm sure none of them lived such a free and carefree life as I do now, but I have my ancestors to thank for this.
Very interesting! I think I have a DNA-mix of "Nordic" genes and mid-European genes (valloner/valonia/Belgian from my mum's ancestors' side) which have given me deep brown eyes, easily tanned skin apart from my siblings who got "normal" Nordic white skin and blue eyes (and easily sunburned skin as well)
Women were actually better off in the Viking Age (apart from the slaves) Then the slaves could also be freed and then included in society. Maybe the woman you talk about in the video came voluntarily or was freed later? I myself have roots mostly from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. My ancestors have been here at least before the Viking Age, around the year 500 anyway. Descended from kings and warriors, but not rich for that 😊 Ordinary Nordic man. Born and lives in Sweden. The focal point is Sweden
I was 100% daddy's girl, he was Swedish, my mom was Finnish from Carelia and I distanced myself completely from her. When she died I hadn't seen her in 17 years. I'm born and live in Finland though, and many people have told me I'm so typical Carelian, "Oh, you are so Carelian". I have always felt a magnetic attraction to Ural, longing for visiting eg Jekaterinburg at the most southern part of the Ural mountains. Some 10 years ago I learned that the research points to the Carelians comes from the southern parts of Urals to Finland. It was news to me and I was surprised of course as I feel myself connected to that region. As I cannot have been influenced by my mother, due to me totally staying away from her, I'm convinced my DNA is most influenced by my Carelian ancestors. The DNA can't be influenced by your relationships to your parents, be it good or bad, right? Recently, I started to take a closer look on my dad's family history in Sweden, for the first time. They are all from a small, before days a quite isolated village, e.g both of my dad's parents are born here. As this small place have remains from both BC as well as historical monuments from the Viking era I thought it must be very pure Swedish DNA in the genes. I'm really curious about the place and I'm going to visit it asap. Anyway, interesting is that I don't feel myself very attracted to that area or place. My citizenship and first language is Swedish as I lived in and went to school in Sweden but I don't feel rooted to any place in Sweden in the same way as I feel rooted to a place I have never, ever even visited - Southern Urals! Next year I'm planning to do some DNA tests, I'm already looking forward the results. As a daddy's girl, I was really very close to my dad, somehow I'm not influenced by where he came from. So is it like the DNA is a lottery? I know there are many different DNA tests, I heard one shall take as many as possible to get an accurate result. Well, thank you for this informative video, it looks like ther is no pure, typical Swedish DNA after all, according to your lecture. It was interesting to watch indeed. I'll check your other videos too. Liked and subscribed!🎉
Hi, if you are Apulian (from Italy) and you show traces of some British, Irish, Switzerland's DNA.. how could it be? There are small percentages, so it is something ancient for sure...
@@antonsamuelsson1317 thank your for you answer! Yes, it could actually be.. since we didn't have any British conquerors here, Normans we had.. but I ask myself, if it's due to the Norman, shouldn't have been resulted from Normandy, or maybe Scandinavia?
It was fun when we did the DNA tests on my parents. Dad having the most "vikingish" DNA possible. Our ansestors have barely moved 15km still living in the area between some famous runestones. It was a central dot on his map showing our area and it fits with the earlier relative studies made in churtchbooks. We immigrated from the "socken" next to ours and stayed at home. We belong to Svearna living in the area around Mälaren. Stockholm is in the east of Mälaren. Many people have indigenous rights to their geographic areas or have rules about who can call themselves [name of indigenous people] but when it comes to Viking (which is actually a profession) it seems anyone can call themselves that. For some reason, it is ugly to be of Viking descent in Sweden. We are terrified of being racist so we must not be proud of our history. I really wish the picture of the lady dressed in fur and weird make up would be changed to a more correct piture.
My mother's family came from Newcastle so I understand that the vikings went there so I am proud to be a bit Scandinavian. I have been to Sweden twice a long time ago before I knew that I was a bit Swedish. I am blonde but I never knew by that I was a bit Swedish until recently.
Archeologists have found traces of several Nordic settlements in the Baltic areas, including in todays Lithuania. Like Apuolė near Skuodas, once a host for a large castle; it was known in the Middle Ages as “Apulia”. Other Nordic remnants have been found, primarily burial places. In place, like Palanga, Žardė near Klaipėda, etc.
Interesting video. I'm curious... I1 .. is that supposed to come from SHG? Or what? Are both R1a and R1b representing the Yamnaya culture? What makes R1a and R1b different? N 1-- representing the Uralic groups ... why understanding is that N1 arrived later than the other groups?? I guess these haplogroups refer to Y chromosomes? What about mitochondrial groups and spreading? Which ones are common in, say Sweden, or Scandinavia? When and from where did they come?
I’ve done some research on my own Y- I1 haplogroup and the branch that I come from originated in North Germany probably around the river Rhine and Elbe 4800 before present. The SHG did not carry the I1. They were I2 and I*.
For mitochondrial haplogroups in Swedes, read my online essay "Swedish Genetics: Abstracts and Summaries" where I summarize the studies "Migration Waves to the Baltic Sea Region" and " "Complete Mitochondrial DNA Genome Variation in the Swedish Population".
I1 is very much connected to the first germanic culture originating in "eastern Scandinavia" (McColl et al 2024). But we yet dont fully know if it first appeared in SHG or a second immigration of EHG.
There was a Walloon immigration, but it was actually very small with maximum a few thousand individuals. The Walloon were very appreciated and thus a lot of Swedes claim Walloon descendency. There was actually a big inflow of Germans and Poles that was much bigger than the Walloon’s when Sweden was a great power in Europe.
@@renipatvilmoskorte7458 It's definitely not based on fairytales. The number of Walloon descendants has been estimated at around 100,000, which today is believed to be an underestimate. Anders Herou, chairman of the Society of Walloon Descendants, does not believe that the number exceeds one million, but amounts to a few hundred thousand.
@@ThePettho The number of Walloon descendants has been estimated at around 100,000, which today is believed to be an underestimate. Anders Herou , chairman of the Society of Walloon Descendants, does not believe that the number exceeds one million, but amounts to a few hundred thousand.
@@danziger9996 There are very good data on this as Sweden have had census data since 1600. There were never more than 2000 (probably a to high estimation). This is also well proven with DNA, the Walloon DNA is very rare in Sweden. It might be that someone believes that that they are of Walloon heritage but the DNA story tells something else. Best regards. My source sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valloner_i_Sverige?wprov=sfti1#Historia
A big group of people with dark skin and blue eyes came in from the east passing Finland along the coasts of Norway when the land ice was gone in the northern parts of Scandinavia. The blue eyes are typical for Scandinavians but the dark skin not so I assume that even that they got all along the Norwegian coast and into the area where Gothenburg and Oslo is today, they must have lost in fights with the peoples from the German area.
Having done some genealogy and also done a DNA test, I am 88.2% Scandinavian, 5.8% Eastern European and 4.5% Finnish. I also have 0.1% ancestry from both Angola & Congo, and also "Broadly East Asian". I blame those last genes for me being so damn short! My maternal haplogroup is T1a1 and my paternal haplogroup is I-L22. I have more Neanderthal genes than 68% of the others on that site. But my husband, who is almost 100% Scandinavian, have more than me. He and I also share maternal haplogroup, but no DNA, so somewhere very far down in our lines, we're apparently related. Sadly, through genealogy I haven't yet been able to find my Finnish or eastern European ancestor. One suspected Finnish ancestor, but no lead at all to my eastern European one. But I have a LOT of female ancestors who had "father unknown" listed in the registers during the time period when they should have lived. Hm...
If you want to see Swedes in America theres a great documentary about that on youtube. Its called "American Swedish". I live right next to a city that had alot of the people that moved to US. We have some movies about that period aswell. And if you want to see people learn about that part of history you should watch "Allt för Sverige". It has alot of English in it because its mostly Americans.
@@fredrikbergquist5734 Vi har aldrig haft några turkiska soldater här vad jag vet. Däremot så for många svenskar ner till dessa områden under vikingatiden. Antagligen så tog man även hem kvinnor
Perhaps most people in Sweden comes from nomadic people ? The nomadic people came after the ice age,from the german and russian area ? Sweden has never been conquered by a great power except Tzar-Russia ?(1799)
Hahah ye i know. But we really dont come from other places that much. Our origin is Sweden. Well ofc it really depends on how far back you go. But DNA can only go that far.
You're probably not really English but it's just that it's difficult to distinguish Danish from English due to the Anglo Saxons and Jutes settling in England.
We dont know if Corded Ware Culture were brothers or decendants to Yamnaya. IE if we will learn about a Protoindoeuropean culture ancestral to both of them.
@@celtichistorydecoded Thank you, sir. As an American Swede, I can't differentiate. (But I can pick up a Canadian accent like that! Snaps his fingers...)
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Blonde and blue/grey eyes. Just like 80% of my relatives. I have done some research.. On my mothters side: Have come back to 1705 where a forfather participated at the battle of Narva.
On my fathers side a shoemaker in Uppsala at 1658
@@swedishgooner6339 my family was there to ,, Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld
Du har en koppling till Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld.
Kortaste släktskap genom relationer
Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld is your first cousin once removed's partner's first cousin thrice removed's husband's great grandfather's wife's second cousin twice removed's 1st husband.
GREAT VIDEO, GREAT SUBJECT very revealing, I'm a native East Coast Spaniard with I1 haplogroup, (Blue eyes ,Tall, Broad, Pale, blonde beard, resistant to cold, carnivorous diet...) I did two genetic Ancestry Tests to find out why my family always joked why they looked so "Germanic/ Viking" for the average Spaniard. Both said I had more North Western and Eastern European than I thought but then I keep researching...
AND EVEN thou, my family surnames are extremely regional and haven't moved from this Costal area between Norther Italy/ South France to the South East Iberian shores of the peninsula...
I have 5 different ethnicities, but the astonishing thing is that I'm not even 45 % Iberian, and that Iberian Subgroup Goes Up to Northern France for some reason, with its own subgroup, Also 15 % Irish, Scottish & Welsh, 15 % Balkanic, 15% Italian and 10 % Eastern European something
It says im more similar genetically to Coastal Spaniards, Basques, Catalans, Andalucians, Galicians, ... that to interior Spaniards, WHAT did my ancestors came by boat? and Raided all the Shores of Spain or Something XD
Anyway being I1 (I-Z60, specifically nations with this subgroup, SWEDEN, GERMANY, ENGLAND) in the Iberian peninsula being a native is like being an Unicorn, I didn't know it was associated with Viking haplogroups, WTF im doing here? WHEN did my paternal ancestor came to Iberia? 😂 😂
Keep up the Good Work, mate : D
Im Swedish, so....i guess i do :$
I'm swedish. My great grandfathers were from GB & Norway
Thanks for adding English subtitles.
😂. Listen, dear
hunter gatherers
"Noise" 👍
Blessings from Sweden 🇸🇪
God bless you Swedes, please keep fighting to save your nation from invasions and subversions. I love you all, because believe it or not I have part of your ancestry for some reason IN ME, signed: Some Blue Eyed Pale Tall Dude native from Spain's East Coast with your paternal haplogroup I1... :D
Believe me we are all out trying to save our country not all swedes are lefties
@@JessicaJohnson-vp9mt : D , Thanks for making time to comment something positive, Im really happy to hear that, . Thanks,
also i want yu to know. Not all Spaniard are Retard Far Left socialists also, ... only 80 % XD
But i want t know if that statement is accurate or if Im just an outlier,
Thats why i got the DNA tests BUT Southern Eurpe is for better or worse more naturally Ethnically Diverse since even prehistoric times.
For example I have 5 main European ethnic Groups
Adding that Spain is 45% Mountainous Region and Many diferent gorups come here and create enclaves of their own culture or ethnic whatever i think...
Thats why your Visigoth ancestors between other Northern Tribes came down here, Oh wait, those were my ancestors, maybe, haha dont know...
Have a great Day, take care, Much love From Spain, also im glad winter aproaches, i dont like the heat XD
Thank you. Very interesting. Love from Sweden ❤🇸🇪🇸🇪
Thank you
God Bless You Swedes, much love from Spain
🇹🇷❤🇸🇪
I’m an American with a mixture of ancestry from all over Europe. I knew I had a bit of Swedish ancestry, but the coolest part is being of mitochondrial haplogroup V, which is fairly common amongst the Saami!
people in general dont know that! not outside of sweden! we have also 3 protected minority in sweden The Roma Sami and Tornedalingar. im a bit from sami culture
5 protected minority groups, you forgot swedish-finns, romani and Jews. Also Saami are not one of these, but considered native, which is stupid since tornedalingar aka kväner, aka mienkäli are just as old.
@@tonynordlander9626I find Europeans and whites so weird. Why are you all so desperate to be anything but what you are? It’s weird and off putting! You are a Swede and you’re so ashamed you claim to be Sami because it’s not white. I’m so sorry you hate yourself this much!
The Angels fell from Heaven and landed in Sweden to become tennis players and movie stars.
Angels with dirty faces 😂
@@Gilysbay Indeed. And with blue eyes.
@@robertodebeers2551 look for the video of the simbology of the blue eyes in Europe or something, now i cant remember but it was assosiated with something good
You're funny!
@@jan-erikjanson1995 We try!
Swede here, who has a lot of family from around Finnerödja (which literally means Finn-cleared land) in central Sweden, named so from the forest Finns you mentioned briefly, who were brought in by the king (of Sweden and Finland at the time) from economically depressed eastern Finland (maybe Russia today?), to turn unproductive forestland into more productive agricultural land, thus broadening the tax base, etc. I believe the immigrants who settled in Sweden were provided with some startup capital and tax exemption for a few years. Sweden's best strawberries come from the area, but maybe I am biased.
89,2% Scandinavian DNA, 9,9% Finish DNA and 0,9% Inuit DNA, according to MyHeritage. 85% Scandinavian DNA, 14% Finish DNA and 1% Baltikum DNA according to Ancestry. I am born and live in Sweden. I also have Sami ancestry on my fathers side.
I feel like my heritage does better than most testing
You are a mongrel..any percentage of non whites dna alters pure white dna
@@niklasbystrom8751 Not strange at all since both Finland and the Baltic contries were Swedish for a quite long time.
@@swedishgooner6339 Vem har skrivit att det var konstigt, samt kunskapen att dagens Finland under större delen av dess tid var en del av Sverige, och att stora delar av de baltiska staterna också låg under svenskt styre är väl känt för flertalet som kan något om nordisk historia, däribland jag.
@@niklasbystrom8751 Tänkte mer på att upplysa typ jänkare som kan noll om Sverige.
This was great.
Cant wait to watch the Finnish DNA video.
I hope you get to that one soon.
A FinnishSwedish Viking here from Ostrobothnia Finland-Vörå
Maternal Haplogroup-H1
Paternal Haplogroup- I-L258
23andMe estimates:
81.8% Finnish
Genetic groups:
-West-Central Coast of Finland
14.5% Scandinavian
Genetic groups:
-Arctic Norway
-Eastern Norrland
-Easter Svealand and southern Norrland
-Western Svealand
I have more Neanderthal DNA than 79% of other 23andMe customers.
less then 2% of my DNA is Neanderthal.
Enough that both my knees need operation 👍
Niceeeee
The name Sweden originates from the ancient Viking kingdom known as Svear, or Swedes in English, which was centered in Old Uppsala.
The people were called svear. You also had "götar" etc.
Svear lived in Svearike, which is the origin for the word Sverige
Well it really really depends. Its origin was before Vikings.
Altho i would agree that it got bigger during the viking age. The old names for Sweden was Sweoland or Sweorice. But we didnt really call ourselfs anything before that. It was just "Northerner" bascially. Same as Norway. Wich was "The way to the North" or something like that. The old name we kinda still use today but at the same time not, was Svea Rike. Our mother was Svea. When it comes to mythology and stuff like that... Its hard to pinpoint exactly where Sverige has its origins from since its so far back and we really didnt write anything down before viking era.
According to some the name comes from the tribe svejoner wich can be translated to svine/boars. That can explain the mythology about the people being closely connected to the god Frej.
We had kings long before the vikings
As an American whose family roots date back to the mid-1600s on my father's side and the early 1700s on my mother's, my genetics are largely representative of colonial America. When I got back a 23-and-Me report that showed a tiny admixture of Scandinavian, I had to sit down and think where it came from. Yes, there were Swedes in North America in the 1600s, but I suspect the admixture came as part of one of the last waves of Northwest European immigration: the Irish.
Utspädning av arvet!
We're all that way. My ancestors got their start in colonial Virginia. Through my Scottish side and English side, I've got quite of a bit of Danish and Norse ancestry.
Leif Eriksson discovered north America around year 1000 and settlers stayed.
The biggest immigration of Swedes to the US happened in the 1800s not the 1600s. Sweden was extremely poor in this period and famine was a huge problem.
There's a lot of Scandinavia in N England...I can even say that possibly the southern drawl comes from N English dialects, whom until 18th c were effected how east-danes spoke engllish. When people speak english iin Skåne, it sounds like the drawl. Compare with Hasse Andersson Kvinnaböske Skåne's Kenny Rogers...
As a Swedish Irish and Scottish blooded American it is funny as hell to hear people butcher my Swedish last name🤣
May i ask what your last name is?
@@johncenashi5117 Johnny MCCOOLNAME
Bt7ox? How do you say that?
@@AndrwsAnimatics Wrong answer from wrong person.
@@NUMMEHARBEN th-cam.com/video/r8zYbqVo_Vc/w-d-xo.html
I am a native Spaniard and was strange for me to find in my DNA 2% Scandinavian, 2,2% Finnish and 1,6% Baltic. I know we got some Visigoths here but the traces left are not significant.
It might come from France and the Normans who were decendents of vikings settling in what is today Normandie or the fact that Vikings had several expeditions and documenred sieges and attacks on Seville, cadiz, Algeciras, Murcia and other locations. There are probably a lot of precens never documented in Spain. Most likly they spent time in basque country, Asturias and Galicia. Or your ancestry is just more recent
@@jonas666palm I have some Basque and Galician origins too.
Was that MyHeritage? I wouldn't take the old MyHeritage results seriously. They were updating and did start but have stalled at the monent. Hopefully they will roll it out soon.
BRO I'm a native Spaniard from Valencia, all the surnames from my direct ancestors are extremely regional from the middle ages...("Catalan/ Valencian/ Balearic " ) to a point i haven't found even "Castilian" surnames.
However the tests I did told me, between other stuff, I have direct paternal ancestry from North Western Europe.
My ( Y ) haplogroup is I1 ( I-Z60 to be specific ) which begs me question
¿WTF im doing here XD. ?
I know there is like 10% of male Spaniards with "I1 Proto-Germanic" haplogroup, and that the most common line in the rest of Europe is the R1b subgroup associated with the late Indo-European migrations etc... so its not impossible to be a native European with a foreign haplogroup from another region mixed with the natives...
However my Genetic test didn't specify direct Scandinavian ancestry:
- 23andME said I have at least 20 % Broadly North Western European ( which includes Scandinavia)
- My Heritage didn't had that category BUT the ethnic groups I was matched with were of north western - eastern European ancestry, or received historically lots and lots of migration from Northern Regions of Europe.
Ex:
- 15 % Irish, Scottish and Welsh (no Anglo-Saxon)
- 15 % Balkanic which as we know is a broad region with lots of groups
- 15 % Italian
Anyway even thou the different company Tests didn't clarify or match in the NWE ancestry, and knowing the data models change, I still trust them to some extent because ONE thing both MATCH almost perfectly was my IBERIAN ancestry which I was surprised to see it was JUST 45 to 48%...
Its interesting to see im Genetically more close to North Spain, East Coasts , but also Basques, Galicians and French people than anyone in the main land.
But the other weird thing that i couldn't interpret was that my IBERIAN subgroup occupies for some reason France and Germany up to the North over Normandy, Netherlands etc...
This group is called "Iberian people from France" or "French people in Iberia" ?¿?
I don't understand this feature... I only know my families had lots of the "Germanic phenotypic body plan" ( taller, broader, paler, blue eyes, fuck i even grew blonde hair on my beard...)
And they always joked on how "Viking " they looked way before the Internet or knowledge of this...
Which YEs compared to the average looking Spaniard... well I get confused with tourists sometimes and i have to explain them im a native XD, ( I don't think i look so "alien" but whatever... )
This still puzzles me, because my Specific haplogroup is more common Sweden, Germany England... not Spain.
And my Paternal mutation I-Z60 appeared in Northern Germany Bronce Age 2050 B.C according to FamilyTreedna
I'm really interested in knowing your data and experience on what you learned. This is a very interesting subject. And I hope we learn more of our legacy and future.
Un placer hablar con alguien tan cercano interesado en estos temas. Dios te Bendiga, un abrazo y Viva España.
❤💛❤
@@jackieblue1267 thanks ill be aware of that
Another great video filled with detail and an excellent presentation, thank you.
So I’ve taken probably to many dna test and played around in some calculators. The results I get from the main players, such as 23&me, Ancestry and FTDNA, show up as Norwegian, British and Swedish. British being mostly English with some Scottish, depending on the company, and a little Irish, and Welsh. This is more or less what I new about my family.
Now when I get into some of the other companies and calculators, that’s when things like Balitic, Asian or Native American, most definitely Sami, start to show up. Hints of Roma trail as well. The biggest take away though is the high Celtic dna I get quite often in these calculators, which have their biases and limitations, but when you see a continuous pattern and then studies and videos like this come out, it makes sense. Celtic from my British, Celtic from a bit of German and French I have and then Celts in Sweden and Norway. Man exciting, but exhausting sometimes. 😂
I hope by sharing my findings and videos like this will help people in their ancestry quest.
Thanks again:)
Thank you and thanks for sharing, really interesting.
Yes Reinfeldt. Our ancestors were barbarians but we are really really proud of it.
Underrated comment.
I totalt agree
@@2011mranderson 👍
Atleast our ancestors didnt run a scamming Flea Circus like Reinfeld's granddad.
Do you know how barbaric? In the video he mentioned a British- Irish woman found in a rich grave, as proof of not all British- Irish being slaves.
But knowing slaves were burrid with their master, I looked up what the custom was. Ibn Fadlan wrote in 922 about a chief burial in South Sweden. One female slave volunteered (dont think it was always the case) to go to the afterwold with her master. She got better treatment the days before the funeral. On the funeral the Chiefs nearest male friends and relatives had sex with/ raiped the slave and told her to pass their greetings. Then she was brought next to the Chiefs corpse, intoxicated, stretched by both arms and legs by 4 men, raped by the same 4 men, had her belly cut by a knife between the ribs and strangeld with a rope to death. Then the 4 men and death woman left the boat and they set it on fire. So yeah, extremely barbaric!
I'm Swedish. My DNA is mainly Scandinavian with Finnish, Celtic and Baltic parts, which ties in very nicely with this video.
I have 2% Swedish ancestry which doesn't mean a lot genetically. But one of my grans maiden name was Gemmell which does have Scandinavian origins.
who says it swedish? wich test? and wich time and place my heritage ancestry familytree test?
Gemmel is of Danish origin ...it means ...hidden or concealed. During the Viking Age... Denmark was huge , compared to Sweden , Denmark is the first United Kingdom in the world...i say united, cause the the Vikings was tribes ..some bigger then others , but they all did have their own King. Gemmel is not a common last name ..in Sweden today . But a lot of elder Viking names , you have to search around Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and even Finland to understand them . But Gemmel ..is an old Viking word .
Not the first kingdom, but the oldest flag in use, the oldest royal family still on the throne. It also was not just about tribes, but families (ätter), often they intermarried, and fought each other like when the Swedish king Sigurd Hring became king in Denmark.
There was a famous Scottish footballer called Archie Gemnell back in the 70s 😊
@@lisapinfold506 Maybe a distant relative!
As a Dutch person with a Spanish dad I considered myself half Dutch half Spanish. After a DNA test I found out that my Dutch is really a mix of Frisian Danish Norwegian Swedish and a whole lot of English 😂..the Spanish side came out as 50% Iberian. Something that surprised me most really because my dad had some foreign ancestors we know. So it would mean that my dad was a 100% Iberian? Something I think not to be plausible.
So you are a doggerland 🤗
Iberian equals Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and perhaps also some Basque. So the test didn't distinguish between these when discovering that your dad is Spanish.
@@rursus8354 No it doesn’t distinguish between modern borders. (I know what Iberian means 😄 when I say Spanish I’m not talking about the modern borders of Portugal and Spain.)
And some of my ancestors are Catalan, not surprised they came out as Iberian.
I’m talking about Arabian, Jewish and native American and Philippines roots, when I speak about foreign ancestry. No trace of them.
My DNA test confirmed my Swedish origins
I am half swedish born and raised in sweden, Are you celtic? My name is Celtic it is Ossian.
My Grandfather from Stockholm has the same name . He emigrated to the U.S. in 1913 .
This are totally wrong! Oldest findings after humans in Sweden are as old as 13-14000 year old. The history in Sweden started way before the last ice age.
The findings were found in Finjasjöns at Mölleröd.
In Dalarna there are human findings brunt skull dated as old as 9000 year they are caller Brandgravar but findings as old as 10 000 years have been discovered.
So please do your research.
Also there are sites which are 6000 years old in the northern parts of Sweden. Hunter gatherers it seems.
I was looking for this comment. The video is not accurate.
Yeah..People were stopping by and living in the southern parts way before all the ice melted away. If not permanently then at least during the summer months.. And returning to the mainland and doggerland during the winter. The southern tip of Scandinavia could only be reached by boat back then.. As there was no route in the north east yet.
"Human findings" are WAY different than the DNA this video is about.
@@zak-a-roo264 So they didn't have any DNA back then? Of course they did and somewhere did a bloodline start, it's a gap in the hole fact's here.
I knew that I was English and Welsh but due to a DNA test I have learned that I am six percent Swedish. I am proud of that. I am learning Swedish now.
Lycka till med studierna i Svenska! Jag har alltid undrat hur svårt svenska kan vara att lära sig för en engelsktalande. God luck with your Swedish studies! I have always wondered how hard it would be for an English speaker to learn Swedish.
I'm a sweed with blonde hair and Grey eyes. I have 4% Neanderthal DNA. I believe my grey eyes, my father's red hair and green eyes, and my mother's blue eyes are all Neanderthal. I also have scots/irish DNA. I don't know how to find. Y haplogroup. Another test maybe
Glömmer att slavhandel fungerade även under vikingatiden.
Fick bäst betalt för vissa kvinnor.
Why do you believe that?
Tribal knowledge academy
23andme gives y-haplogroup
Det har gett oss enorm mental kapacitet. Neandertalblod perfekt.
Tack så mycket!
I'm a Finland-Swede from Ostrobothnia, Finland, with mostly Swedish ancestry (but I also have some Finnish ancestors from South Ostrobothnia, who switched to Swedish and Swedified their names in the 1500s and 1600s)
As a Swede i choose to belive it`s straight from Thor and Oden
I do have a small, but significant amount of both Swedish and Danish ancestry. Along with my English, German and Scottish ancestry.
9:10 I had one Swedish Grandmother, maternal side. Our mtDNA haplogroup is H1g1.
I am Norwegian, and a quarter Danish (father is half). My DNA also show from Sweden, which is not uncommon ofc when you share a long border that have not always been constant, and also seeing that DNA is not strictly "Norwegian or Swedish". I am probably genetically closer to western Swedes than to western Norwegians, judging from my family tree history. Talking about borders and DNA though, much of the 'Swedish' ancestry I have is pinpointed to southern Sweden, which I believe is because much, if not most, of my Danish ancestry stems from Danish Scania. I have read about my ancestors in history books, that fought in the Scanian wars. So thats quite interesting. Also I am a tiny bit Forest Finn (from mothers side). So I feel well represented lol 👍
Very interesting, thanks for sharing
@@celtichistorydecoded 😊
Swedes are tall good looking people so different from the rest of the world. This is best explained by visitors from other planets who like landing in the northern parts of the earth.
Little green men produce tall blondes on their sex holidays.
Jeeez… have you mislaid your tin foil hat 🤦♂️🤣🤭
They must be the remaining population of Atlantis..cuz today most of Nordic i1 dna lost to R1b and R1a..they were huge and tolerate milk ..no neolithic dna tolerate milk..either they were a tribe like R1b
I thought no one knew that🙂
….‘em……..
Intersting info, thank you!
I'm 97% swedish and 3% finnish with a large percent with Neanderthal DNA.
Thanks
I have Swedish ancestry on my mother's side with most of my recent ancestors from West-Central Sweden.
I made 3 DNA testes(MyHeritage, Ancestry and 23andMe) and they all came back saying Im 100% Swedish(from the countys Skåne, Halland and Norrbotten)💛💙
I’m swedish. Took different DNA tests and to sum it up they show 80-90% swedish ancestry and the rest being finnish and some celtic.
My husband DNA was 53 % Scottish.and the rest was like 2% to 10 % of European Scandinavian ,German.
Sounds like the vikings tinder was to go on a raid and trade sea journey...
Think sex-toy shop is a better comparison then tinder. The slaves normaly didn't become their partner. In the video he mentioned a British- Irish woman found in a rich grave, as proof of not all British- Irish being slaves (treller).
But knowing slaves were burrid with their master, I looked up what the custom was. Ibn Fadlan wrote in 922 about a chief burial in South Sweden. One female slave volunteered (dont think it was always the case) to go to the afterwold with her master. She got better treatment the days before the funeral. On the funeral the Chiefs nearest male friends and relatives had sex with/ raiped the slave and told her to pass their greetings. Then she was brought next to the Chiefs corpse, intoxicated, stretched by both arms and legs by 4 men, raped by the same 4 men, had her belly cut by a knife between the ribs and strangeld with a rope to death. Then the 4 men and sermonial woman left the boat with both corpses, vepons, slaughtered animals and what else needed for the afterlife, and they set it on fire. Those 10 penetrations did not lead to more British-Irish genes, but the rest of the female slaves were probably penetrated just s much. Maybe the slaves that volunteered to die, got some benefits for their kids, because the kids became normally slaves as well, even if it was the chifs'. Guess this was custom all over Vikings' Scandinavia.
88% scandinavian, 10% finnish and 2% baltic DNA (MyHeritage). Yes, born in Sweden and still live here. Loads of DNA-ties to Norway.
I'm Swedish, born here, but some of my ancestors where Vallons (blacksmith people from Belgium) and my grandfather (my fathers father) were born in the village of Iglau in then Tjeckoslovakia. His father were born in Germany, i am also related to the noble family "Uggla" which in Swedish means "Owl". the Swedish musician Magnus Uggla is also related to this noble family so i am related to him as well. Also i am related to a former king of Sweden (Karl XIV Johan).
Your discourse on Swedes genes was very interesting. My Y Haplotype is I 1m253 with a sub type of I-z58 haplogroup. My X female is H- I5. I am a descendant from very first English and Scottish settlers in the Jamestown years. Does anyone else have this background???
I am 1IM253 Sub branches Z138 /A7004 . With Jutland being the likely origin of an common ancestor . My traceable history is in North east Scotland with family legend being we got left behind after the Danish armies defeat at the battle of Cruden bay in 1012 . I am an direct ancestor of Birger Jarl who is my 32nd great grandfather who was Swedish .
My DNA is all Northwestern European with 13 % Sweden Denmark
I'm one of those Swedes with a Y-DNA reflow from Anglo-Saxon Britain after the viking age. 12 gens above me, he lived in Scania.
I am Saxon from north west Germany......
I did a DNA test. I am English Welsh and Swedish.
Thank you for this information. You spoke of Italy coming into the gene poll in the SW part of Sweden? I am 60% Italian from the Levant, Egypt dynasty and 29% Sweden,. and UK. Can you tell me alittle where I should research this?
I'm an American with some Swedish ancestry. I carry the I1 M-253 haplogroup. The majority of my ancestry is English and Scottish.
I am Swedish with Spanish and some Eastern European ancestry (according to 23andMe) and my haplogroup is also I-M253.
93% Scandinavian, 6% Finnish and 1% Baltic.
My DNA also shows that I mainly originate from the area where I currently live in western Sweden, close to Norway.
But research has shown that I do have an ancestor born in Lübeck 1316. He was an armsman in Schwerin, councilor in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and my 15th great-grandparent. So I guess we wheren’t all farmers in Sweden. No, they where also nobility, merchants and priests. One of them lost his head in the Stockholm massacre in 1520 (”Stockholms blodbad”. We haven't got our confiscated property back after that "incident", by the way).
Whether they were allowed to keep their heads or not, I'm sure none of them lived such a free and carefree life as I do now, but I have my ancestors to thank for this.
This concurs with what I've learned.
Genetically 92% Scandinavian, (I’m Swedish) and 8% Finnish. I’m practically inbred. Ice/light blue eyes with white streaks and blonde.
Great video!
Scandinavians are one of least inbred peoples on Earth.
I can see the beauty
Thanks
I am from Sweden my mum from England
Very interesting! I think I have a DNA-mix of "Nordic" genes and mid-European genes (valloner/valonia/Belgian from my mum's ancestors' side) which have given me deep brown eyes, easily tanned skin apart from my siblings who got "normal" Nordic white skin and blue eyes (and easily sunburned skin as well)
Women were actually better off in the Viking Age (apart from the slaves) Then the slaves could also be freed and then included in society. Maybe the woman you talk about in the video came voluntarily or was freed later? I myself have roots mostly from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. My ancestors have been here at least before the Viking Age, around the year 500 anyway. Descended from kings and warriors, but not rich for that 😊 Ordinary Nordic man. Born and lives in Sweden. The focal point is Sweden
I was 100% daddy's girl, he was Swedish, my mom was Finnish from Carelia and I distanced myself completely from her. When she died I hadn't seen her in 17 years. I'm born and live in Finland though, and many people have told me I'm so typical Carelian, "Oh, you are so Carelian".
I have always felt a magnetic attraction to Ural, longing for visiting eg Jekaterinburg at the most southern part of the Ural mountains. Some 10 years ago I learned that the research points to the Carelians comes from the southern parts of Urals to Finland. It was news to me and I was surprised of course as I feel myself connected to that region.
As I cannot have been influenced by my mother, due to me totally staying away from her, I'm convinced my DNA is most influenced by my Carelian ancestors. The DNA can't be influenced by your relationships to your parents, be it good or bad, right?
Recently, I started to take a closer look on my dad's family history in Sweden, for the first time. They are all from a small, before days a quite isolated village, e.g both of my dad's parents are born here. As this small place have remains from both BC as well as historical monuments from the Viking era I thought it must be very pure Swedish DNA in the genes.
I'm really curious about the place and I'm going to visit it asap. Anyway, interesting is that I don't feel myself very attracted to that area or place. My citizenship and first language is Swedish as I lived in and went to school in Sweden but I don't feel rooted to any place in Sweden in the same way as I feel rooted to a place I have never, ever even visited - Southern Urals!
Next year I'm planning to do some DNA tests, I'm already looking forward the results. As a daddy's girl, I was really very close to my dad, somehow I'm not influenced by where he came from. So is it like the DNA is a lottery?
I know there are many different DNA tests, I heard one shall take as many as possible to get an accurate result.
Well, thank you for this informative video, it looks like ther is no pure, typical Swedish DNA after all, according to your lecture. It was interesting to watch indeed. I'll check your other videos too. Liked and subscribed!🎉
i'm swede for at least 9 generations as i found, haven't found all my line to 9 generationes yet however., I'm I2 and I-L22
I’m a swede 🇸🇪
I live in Norway. My DNA is: Scandinavian, East norway, south of sweden and north of Denmark, with a dropp og 0.05% from Finland.
Hi, if you are Apulian (from Italy) and you show traces of some British, Irish, Switzerland's DNA.. how could it be? There are small percentages, so it is something ancient for sure...
Norman conquest,
The same as how my dad and grandma have green eyes while my grandma is from malta
@@antonsamuelsson1317 thank your for you answer! Yes, it could actually be.. since we didn't have any British conquerors here, Normans we had.. but I ask myself, if it's due to the Norman, shouldn't have been resulted from Normandy, or maybe Scandinavia?
@@Cesare123it can be mixing with norman culture and them joining in their conquest
@@antonsamuelsson1317 also the Normans under William the conqueror established in the UK, then it makes sense.. ❤️
White ethnic native swedes were first before samis
It was fun when we did the DNA tests on my parents. Dad having the most "vikingish" DNA possible. Our ansestors have barely moved 15km still living in the area between some famous runestones. It was a central dot on his map showing our area and it fits with the earlier relative studies made in churtchbooks. We immigrated from the "socken" next to ours and stayed at home.
We belong to Svearna living in the area around Mälaren. Stockholm is in the east of Mälaren.
Many people have indigenous rights to their geographic areas or have rules about who can call themselves [name of indigenous people] but when it comes to Viking (which is actually a profession) it seems anyone can call themselves that. For some reason, it is ugly to be of Viking descent in Sweden. We are terrified of being racist so we must not be proud of our history.
I really wish the picture of the lady dressed in fur and weird make up would be changed to a more correct piture.
What would be a "more correct" picture?
Yes from one grandfather being R1a and the other being R1b
My mother's family came from Newcastle so I understand that the vikings went there so I am proud to be a bit Scandinavian. I have been to Sweden twice a long time ago before I knew that I was a bit Swedish. I am blonde but I never knew by that I was a bit Swedish until recently.
Why a clip from Trakai, Lithuania admist talking about Sweden?
Archeologists have found traces of several Nordic settlements in the Baltic areas, including in todays Lithuania. Like Apuolė near Skuodas, once a host for a large castle; it was known in the Middle Ages as “Apulia”.
Other Nordic remnants have been found, primarily burial places. In place, like Palanga, Žardė near Klaipėda, etc.
@@Watchdog287 OK, that is not in the near of Trakai, so I consider this clip very misplaced. And any of it is certainly not in Sweden.
@@USER351 Actually a lot of clips from sweden and the capitol Stockholm.
@@Watchdog287 Yes, and that is very ok with me, as they are related to the story.
Interesting video. I'm curious... I1 .. is that supposed to come from SHG? Or what? Are both R1a and R1b representing the Yamnaya culture? What makes R1a and R1b different? N 1-- representing the Uralic groups ... why understanding is that N1 arrived later than the other groups??
I guess these haplogroups refer to Y chromosomes? What about mitochondrial groups and spreading? Which ones are common in, say Sweden, or Scandinavia? When and from where did they come?
I’ve done some research on my own Y- I1 haplogroup and the branch that I come from originated in North Germany probably around the river Rhine and Elbe 4800 before present.
The SHG did not carry the I1. They were I2 and I*.
For mitochondrial haplogroups in Swedes, read my online essay "Swedish Genetics: Abstracts and Summaries" where I summarize the studies "Migration Waves to the Baltic Sea Region" and " "Complete Mitochondrial DNA Genome Variation in the Swedish Population".
I1 is very much connected to the first germanic culture originating in "eastern Scandinavia" (McColl et al 2024). But we yet dont fully know if it first appeared in SHG or a second immigration of EHG.
I’m an American but my mother’s father was from Sweden. My dad’s family was from Scotland but my Y dna is I1a - Viking.
Good mix 👍
I really wish Steven MacMillan added a comment about the 2024 McColl et al study...
Brit with DNA English, Irish, Scottish, Swedish and Welsh. Blood RH negative.
Similar.... But take away Swedish and add Norwegian
You forgot to mention the Walloon immigration to Sweden during the 17th century.
There was a Walloon immigration, but it was actually very small with maximum a few thousand individuals. The Walloon were very appreciated and thus a lot of Swedes claim Walloon descendency. There was actually a big inflow of Germans and Poles that was much bigger than the Walloon’s when Sweden was a great power in Europe.
Walloon ancestry is claimed but never seen a single one with it in their dna, its just fairytales
@@renipatvilmoskorte7458 It's definitely not based on fairytales. The number of Walloon descendants has been estimated at around 100,000, which today is believed to be an underestimate. Anders Herou, chairman of the Society of Walloon Descendants, does not believe that the number exceeds one million, but amounts to a few hundred thousand.
@@ThePettho The number of Walloon descendants has been estimated at around 100,000, which today is believed to be an underestimate. Anders Herou , chairman of the Society of Walloon Descendants, does not believe that the number exceeds one million, but amounts to a few hundred thousand.
@@danziger9996 There are very good data on this as Sweden have had census data since 1600. There were never more than 2000 (probably a to high estimation). This is also well proven with DNA, the Walloon DNA is very rare in Sweden. It might be that someone believes that that they are of Walloon heritage but the DNA story tells something else. Best regards. My source sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valloner_i_Sverige?wprov=sfti1#Historia
A big group of people with dark skin and blue eyes came in from the east passing Finland along the coasts of Norway when the land ice was gone in the northern parts of Scandinavia. The blue eyes are typical for Scandinavians but the dark skin not so I assume that even that they got all along the Norwegian coast and into the area where Gothenburg and Oslo is today, they must have lost in fights with the peoples from the German area.
My dad's Northern Irish but my mom is Swedish. Im R1b-CTS241 but my grandpa is I1 :)
Hi from Swedish women🇸🇪
HI. Im half Swedish, Grandpa was from Stockholm . Strandberg .
Having done some genealogy and also done a DNA test, I am 88.2% Scandinavian, 5.8% Eastern European and 4.5% Finnish. I also have 0.1% ancestry from both Angola & Congo, and also "Broadly East Asian". I blame those last genes for me being so damn short!
My maternal haplogroup is T1a1 and my paternal haplogroup is I-L22. I have more Neanderthal genes than 68% of the others on that site. But my husband, who is almost 100% Scandinavian, have more than me. He and I also share maternal haplogroup, but no DNA, so somewhere very far down in our lines, we're apparently related.
Sadly, through genealogy I haven't yet been able to find my Finnish or eastern European ancestor. One suspected Finnish ancestor, but no lead at all to my eastern European one. But I have a LOT of female ancestors who had "father unknown" listed in the registers during the time period when they should have lived. Hm...
We have a lot of mix of Norwegians and Swedish dna and of course finnish and swedish.
I've got 92,9% Scandinavian and 7,1% Finnish.
From WC USA, 50% Swedish, 50% German, they all came to the USA in the late 1800’s!
If you want to see Swedes in America theres a great documentary about that on youtube. Its called "American Swedish". I live right next to a city that had alot of the people that moved to US. We have some movies about that period aswell. And if you want to see people learn about that part of history you should watch "Allt för Sverige". It has alot of English in it because its mostly Americans.
Good mix
Thats my mix too . I'm Minnesotan .
98% Scandinavian (Southern Sweden and Denmark), the rest is eastern European and for some reason Sardinian?
Hmm... The Danes came from southern and western (nowadays) Sweden and the present-day Danish Isles...
Some Swedes have ancient Finnic ancestry.
If Carl XII had played his cards better finns would still be swedes. 😂
And some finns have swedish
I am 95% Swedish and 5% Norvegian from DNA. But my family story tells that I should have Turkish DNA, why doesn’t it show?
Probably further down the lineage, I am 87% Swedish and 13% Norwegian. However in the 1600 i had genes from Germany.
explain WHY they say you got turkish dna
@@randoomrandoo1230 I come from the southeast of Sweden where a lot of Turkish soldiers settled down after a war in the 17th century.
@@fredrikbergquist5734 Vi har aldrig haft några turkiska soldater här vad jag vet. Däremot så for många svenskar ner till dessa områden under vikingatiden. Antagligen så tog man även hem kvinnor
Perhaps most people in Sweden comes from nomadic people ?
The nomadic people came after the ice age,from the german and russian area ?
Sweden has never been conquered by a great power except Tzar-Russia ?(1799)
Im swedish and 12.5 or 6.25% norwegian 🤔🤣not sure how much norwegian my dads grandfather was. I must do a DNA test sometime.
I have DNA from all the Nordic countries
Many reasearch projects has been done in Umeå university over a long period of time. Maybe they know?
Something tells me english was not your mother tongue and was forced upon your ancestors at some point.
I took a dna test from MyHeritage and i am 100% Swedish.. which was kinda disappointing lol (i am from and live in Sweden)
Hahah ye i know. But we really dont come from other places that much. Our origin is Sweden. Well ofc it really depends on how far back you go. But DNA can only go that far.
Låter väldigt konstigt. Bara ett grundämne kan vara 100% 🤭
I am 12.5% Swedish/Norwegian.
What about walloons? Was not even mentioned.
They were very few
This would be a better video if I could understand the accent of the commentator.
I am 94% scandinavian 1.4% finnish and the rest of me is north-western european.
And I thought I was fluid in English. Gave up after 1 min 45 sec.
Hit the CC button for captions
I am white british english boy hopefully fingers crossed I will born as north european human boy in my next life.
What language do you speak?
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Southern sweden and Norway used to be danish
I have 37% swedish and danish DNA and 14% norweigian.
you are thus not swedish nor white but mixed
@@randoomrandoo1230 I'm swedish and mixed. I don't define my self as an ethinic swede.
@@JohanGillman arab in swede, citizenship dont count.
89% swedish
10 % norwegian
1% irish
Good mixture! 😉
We took all the beautifull women with straight teeth from England and Irealand. 😂😂
lol
you should talk about female haplogroups too.
like haplogroup J
9:03
I am of Swedish decent. My Y Haplogroup is N1c
Thanks for sharing, really interesting.
I´m swedish/danish but my dna shows that i am about 50% English.
You're probably not really English but it's just that it's difficult to distinguish Danish from English due to the Anglo Saxons and Jutes settling in England.
We dont know if Corded Ware Culture were brothers or decendants to Yamnaya. IE if we will learn about a Protoindoeuropean culture ancestral to both of them.
An Irishman(?)/Scotsman(?) talking about Sweden....
What could possibly be misunderstood?
Scottish
@@celtichistorydecoded Thank you, sir. As an American Swede, I can't differentiate. (But I can pick up a Canadian accent like that! Snaps his fingers...)