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Ancient DNA analysis debunks a toxic myth about Vikings
Visitors to Scandinavia shook up its genome, but only for a short time.
by Robin Bea
The Viking Age
has been chronicled in countless books, movies, and TV shows, but that doesn’t mean our media-influenced picture of the period is the whole truth.
Like any culture in the distant past, there’s a lot we don’t know about Scandinavia during the Viking Age. A new study published in the journal Cell shows that even the ancestry of the Vikings isn’t as clear as we may believe.
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