Early Scandinavian History

The region is in northern europe and consists of denmark norway and sweden.

Early scandinavian history. That s because several later migrations have changed the scandinavian gene. The viking expansion from scandinavia itself prolonged the period of migrations in europe for 400 years. In the mid 9th century viking leader turgeis or thorgest founded a stronghold at dublin plundered leinster and meath and raided other parts of ireland.

We extracted dna for sequencing from bones and teeth of the seven individuals from the norwegian atlantic coast and the baltic islands of gotland. Norway norway earliest peoples. The history of scandinavia is the history of the geographical region of scandinavia and its peoples.

Between 3000 and 2500 bce new immigrants settled in eastern norway. Modern people of northern europe trace relatively little genetic ancestry back to the early scandinavians studied by us. He was killed by the high king máel sechnaill mac máele ruanaid which was followed by several irish victories against the vikings and the seizure of dublin in 849.

They were farmers who grew grain and kept cows and sheep. The long coastline and good conditions for sealing fishing and hunting attracted people in numbers. The early history the land now known as norway emerged from the last ice age thanks to the warming effect of the gulf stream.

Objects found in tombs show strong trading links with the celtic and roman civilizations to the south. From about 1500 bce bronze was gradually introduced but the use of. Parts of denmark scania and the norwegian coast line were free from ice around 13 000 bc and around 10 000 bc the rim of ice was around dalsland västergötland and östergötland.

Early migration our interdisciplinary research team combined genetic and archaeological data with reconstructions of the ice sheets to investigate the earliest people of the scandinavian peninsula. Johann baptist homann 1664 1724 was a german geographer and cartographer map dated around 1715. The pre history of scandinavia begins at the end of the pleistocene epoch following the last glacial period s receding fenno scandian ice sheet.