Dark hair was common among Vikings, genetic study confirms(theguardian.com) |
Dark hair was common among Vikings, genetic study confirms(theguardian.com) |
A friend of Scandinavian extraction found through 23&Me that his Y chromosome comes from China. His variant traveled from SE Asia north to Siberia, then west to Scandinavia, presumably carried by progenitors of the Sámi.
Circumpolar peoples certainly got around, but I guess it's also much easier to travel around the world at those latitudes.
Relative to what? "Common" could mean anywhere from 10% to 80%, and the article somehow never manages to explain.