Archaeology News: New Danish Viking Skeletons!

[@TheWelshViking]

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[@LawEire2B]

You remind me of Nick Rekieta back when he was raking in the big superchats. Great content, liked & subscribed.

[@TrixiaDK]

I have a fun story, from many years ago. I used to live only a few kilometres from this “new” site. There was a new building site, only the foundations had been made, and we kids loved to play exploring the on known. We found som teeth and a few bones, in the building site. Now what to do? We didn’t have mobile phones, and the internet was something from the future….. We collected these items, and called the local museum, the newspaper and the police. As we thought that there might have been committed a crime . We were interviewed for the paper and for the police report. And it turned out to be the “dump” from a butcher’s shop. We had found a skeleton from a pig. 😂😂 That ruined our day. Now I look back and smile, we had a great time, with a funny outcome 🤣

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

Jimmy: “Hey Hollywood, I’ve got this great idea for a summer blockbuster, and I can even provide my own kit to play the part of the leading man.” Hollywood: _checks out Jimmy’s kit_ “Nah, looks fake.” Jimmy : “No really, this is an authentic outfit that the character would have worn. I did extensive research and made sure as much as possible to use period-accurate construction methods, tools, and supplies to construct it.” Hollywood: “Rediculous. You don’t even have a helmet with horns on it!” Jimmy: _irate Welsh whimperings_

[@KristiChan1]

I personally can never get enough archeology vids. I mean seriously, FIFTY remains?! My brain is buzzing and impatient to learn what they find out about these past individuals.

[@astreaward6651]

Oh, DEFINITELY do more of these, "what's happening in archaeology," videos!! Being American, broke AF, and ravaged by long-Covid, I have no idea if I'll ever be able to visit museums or historical sites in Europe and Scandinavia so I have to live vicariously for now :)

[@skloak]

We’re in similar situations! Mine’s a useless knee instead of covid. But it’s always been a dream to see the archaeology over there, and if I can’t… well, Jimmy can hopefully provide 😂

[@bigbucketlist]

Let's get him strapped up in a head mounted camera and send him to a couple of museums where he could talk about his favourite things in live streams!

[@KanonBlack13]

Not me taking a screenshot of that golden brooch to try and replicate later for my new viking outfit and then Jimmy mentioning how someone might soon try and reenact the whole thing. I'm having a blast with this video, Thank you so much!

[@TheWelshViking]

There’s a high res shot in the description! Front and back with a scale bar :D Good making to you!

[@hydrophobicbathtowel6816]

​@@TheWelshViking you're the best!!

[@michellebyrom6551]

Good on you. Its gorgeous. The original artisan would be well pleased, speaking as an artist.

[@gadgetgirl02]

Thank you for going over the ethnicity thing -- it can't be said often enough. People have such weird ideas about how much people travelled in the past, and how broadly they intermarried.

[@HosCreates]

thats awesome! Are you sca?

[@mogga47]

I live in åsum, about 500 meters from the dig. Some of us locals also call it awesome, so i give you the blessing to do so aswell. We have known for a while about the skeletons. Its difficult to dig in a small village, without everyone knowing :) As a bonus fact - The escavated area, is only a small sliver of a lager field, rumored to be convertet from agriculture to housing soon. Maybe more interesting finds will be made here soon again.

[@donaldwert7137]

Fifty skeletons in time for Halloween. Cool!

[@CapriUni]

I do love the archeology videos. I also love the word "Skelebones."

[@Tom_Quixote]

As someone who is in fact a Danish skeleton myself, still covered by flesh, I welcome this discovery.

[@euansmith3699]

Would that stylish red bead qualify as a venerable bead? Thanks for another excellent video, Jimmy. I like when you use the correct technical jargon, "Skellybone". 😄👍

[@JootjeJ]

Ouch!

[@Bildgesmythe]

Yes! You can never have enough archeology videos ❤

[@JustSaralius]

If there are updates on this, I'd love another video! And other news too! 😊

[@bethwaltz2607]

We long-time fans of Time Team will immediately recognize the importance of discovering this number of Danish Viking skeletons (and in good nick!). Alas, this event has been lost in the midst of presidential election media coverage, so we hope you'll keep us updated on the latest news from this amazing site!

[@skloak]

Yeah I hadn’t heard a peep about it, but boy do I know who’s running for our Senate seat. Man, do I miss Time Team. The new stuff’s ok, but they don’t get to do very much (like three days of digging a year, or every other year?), and honestly I miss Phil being up to his elbows in the dirt, railing gleefully at Mick over some detail or other. And I miss Mick full stop. The new stuff just doesn’t have the force of personality the old crew had.

[@latronqui]

Haha, when you first said the name of the place all I could think of was "that's awesum"

[@tinuvianna]

This is a beautiful and perfect distraction from the rolling nausea and despair I'm experiencing on the evening of November 5th as I sit at home in the western U.S.

[@polinaignatenkova3634]

If you're able to make more of these type "here's what's going on in archeology" vids pls do! I absolutely love hearing about all the stuff we're learning about ppl who lived hundreds of years ago!

[@kida4star]

“Nuance!” - Jimmy “That’s just a dick move” - also Jimmy I love this channel.

[@annejeppesen160]

Some things are just too much of a dick move to have any nuance 😅

[@azteclady]

Cool news! (and yes, keep bringing us archaeology news, we appreciate it). I hope you feel better soonest; take care of yourself.

[@lenechristiansen2663]

My son lives in Odense, and there has been a lot of digging. And of course there has been found Lots of stuff from about 100 or 200 years ago, which is really interresting. But it´s funny, that I have to learn about the really exiting excavations from KZbin 😅. Thank you and hugs from Denmark. 🥰🇩🇰 Lene/63

[@AStitchTooFar]

"I don't recognise these skeletons" is the most interesting and simultaneously worrying phrase i've heard in a while, love these updates!

[@TealCheetah]

Yes to archaeology news

[@MeliMiyoko]

This was delightful, your enthusiasm for your field is so infectious! I’m down for whatever content you make but this sort of “what’s new in archeology” video might be nice to keep us noobs informed. Get well soon, Jimmy 💐

[@angelcollina]

In the intro, I misheard and thought you said fifteen skeletons. And I thought, “Oh wow! That’s a ton!” Then I realized you said FIFTY and I shouted, “HOLY SHIT!!”

[@suburbiaAZ]

I did the same thing!!

[@lauraevans2104]

I love the current archeology events!!!

[@charlotteillustration5778]

Did you ever hear about the Ridgeway Hill Viking burial site, found near Weymouth in 2009? 54 skeletons and 51 skulls, all buried in separate pits and the DNA analysis found that they were all from different parts of Scandinavia from 970. I live near there and was fascinated by the find.

[@TheWelshViking]

Yep! Very intriguing site

[@DoomWaffle]

As someone who's kept track of aDNA finds for the past 20 years (mostly Neolithic and Bronze Age Balkans and Central Europe) that they found 50 complete skeletons is just absolutely wild to me! I can't wait for the papers to start coming out in a few years.

[@regitzeroos2874]

I’m from Fyn. Some years back (I’m guessing 2016-2020) they found skeletons and other archeological finds from a monastery in Odense when they prepared to build the “letbane”. I would love to hear what you think of it. Though it’s medieval so I don’t know if that’s too late for your personal interests. Sadly it’s not a lot of this information that finds its way to the public. I’ve been to the museum where at least some of the findings are showcased. They found an old sewer used by the monks with berry seeds and fishbones. Thank you for sharing. It’s important work that you do. ☺️

[@Skip-Towne]

I thought you said 15 skeletons at the beginning, which I still thought was really cool, but then you emphasised 50 at the end and I'm absolutely amazed. What a find!

[@isabelofthewoods]

would be lovely to more have archaeology news! even of smaller finds :)

[@willycoyote2866]

Odense is the town I was born in, and I grew up there, and by the way, here is the story of the name of this town: One day Odin was walking with Freja, and she saw a river, and then she pointed and said: "Odin se!" (she asked him to look). This is where Odense now is, and the river she saw is called Odense Å. This one letter word "Å" is what we call a danish river, which is not a real large river as you know it, it's only a little stream.

[@Tom_Quixote]

I believe the real story is that is Odense was originally called Odins Sø - the sacred lake of Odin.

[@ladykarolyn1]

The first bit of this video has me thinking: I'm just so pleased to know that there are people in the world who see a picture of a skeleton and say, "I know that skeleton." I'm glad that's a kind of person there is.

[@coleberry9827]

Please continue to do videos covering Viking Archeology news. You know us reenactors love having new finds brought to our attention. And hopefully it is easier content for you to make.

[@TheVadsten]

Dane here. Very exciting news. Another thing: the pronunciation of Odense is closer to 'O-thense. Not trying to be petty, I just know you care about getting it right

[@djadelaney]

Wagon burial = me getting buried in my 2001 Toyota Sienna, except obviously more profound because someone else might've wanted the wagon and no one wants my poor Sienna except me 🥰

[@yensid4294]

I love discoveries like this. I think people integrated & inter married & cooperated more than is often depicted. War, conflict & violence gets reported on much more than cooperative cohabitation does. Intersting to see what new things are learned from this latest discovery.

[@Worldbuilder]

In Denmark it’s standard to put in search-ditches before you start doing any major earth-works. And then the builder has to pay for the archaeological excavations. We have an *awful* lot of discoveries from the big expansion of the natural gas pipes.

[@TealCheetah]

Gosh when he said "peace of mind" going into the ad read, I was worried it was going to be betterhelp

[@hive_indicator318]

Yeah. I've unsubbed from so many channels because of shilling for those creeps. And the defenders who inevitably talk about contracts don't care that it's been known for a couple years

[@mjdjoy]

Would love to see a follow up video when/If they do extract DNA from those teeth.

[@Maxbroforce]

Thank you so much for sharing Jimmy! I love hearing archaeology news and your enthusiasm is infectious. It's going to be so exciting to see what new things we learn from this excavation. Wishing you a speedy recovery and know your work is so so so appreciated!

[@marcellacruser951]

Can't wait to see more info on this! Glad you're on the mend, dearling.

[@SirWasedOne]

To be honest, the awesome joke was awesome. I'm a Dane situated near Åsum and for as long as I've known about the village, I've imagined that exact joke.

[@TheWelshViking]

Yay! I’ve made a thing happen! 😊

[@pirate1234567891]

Now I'm just imagining an Old Norse/Byzantine version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and honestly I think that could be fantastic

[@samanthaperrin6567]

strontium levels for birth vs death place. that fascinates me

[@TheWelshViking]

SO cool

[@Loweene_Ancalimon]

Isotopic analyses are SO cool. And I can't even begin to wrap my head around how precise they can be. Like, we know from them that Ötzi was born in the neighbouring valley, and then spent most of his life in the one he died in. Fascinating stuff.

[@KasperBoLarsen]

I live 5 km from the site, and had a peek at it about 3 months ago. They hadn't completed the dig at that time and wouldn't really share any info, which makes sense now. It is going to be interesting to see what the DNA will show. Earlier this year a tomb about 20 km north of here revealed a skeleton on an mand that it either a half brother or uncle of a young man that was beheaded near Oxford.

[@KatieRae_AmidCrisis]

All the archaeology news you can muster, please and thank you.

[@Purplefishish]

As a dane, it is cool to see your enthusiasm for our proud history. I really am enjoying this - you just got a new subscriber

[@Beth-ch7pj]

I would love more videos like this!

[@sonipitts]

Yes, please, more archeology news videos! 50 new skeletons is just a mind-blowing amount of new information and discoveries waiting to happen. (So many dissertations, too. I can almost hear the screams of a whole cohort stressed-out PhD students adding to the body of knowledge already. 😆)

[@norbertlewandowski6035]

This was great. I've had the pleasure of 2 archeological videos today! You should check out Jackson Crawford's take on the skeleton in the well(Norway).

[@keephurn1159]

Skeleton news around Halloween, how lovely. More archaeology news please!

[@Siansonea]

Love archaeology news, so please do continue with that type of content. 👍

[@mayanscaper]

This is really exciting. Please do pop in about news. 😊

[@bendrui]

Exciting news! Question: Do reenactors contribute to greater understanding of these finds through experimental archeology? Is that one purpose of sharing the new information with reenactors?

[@M.Datura]

I love this, and generally love that there are people who have the knowledge and interest to follow and digest information like this, and then proceed to explain it in a very digestible format. I'm in a really strange position - I live in a nordic country, born there, but for cognitive reasons cannot comprehend the language anymore, so I've been really happy to discover someone who is so into it, so close to it, (and without it ever feeling like appropriation or agendaed, which is very common) that I can actually understand without a total breakdown. Also, the find itself is super exciting. There's so little information to go on, and I'm looking forward to what more might come from this find. That'll probably be a few years though.

[@mbuhtz]

Yes, more "this week in archaeology" vids are welcome!

[@7cColin]

Cool! Fantastic news. Keep us informed please Jimmy. I have always loved your channel, so grateful you've been able to keep it going for your subscribers. We really appreciate you work! Best to you dude, we know it can't have been easy in recent times. Best wishes!

[@stephenwilliams9950]

Love your sense of humour, Jimmy.

[@thecraftyhistorian]

When I see a skeleton I don’t recognise I click on it to see where it comes from - this is the ultimate goth flex 🤣

[@mikalnaregard9055]

I join the (presumed) crowd who would love more archeology updates. Thank you, yes, and please.

[@GilTheDragon]

I find that it is generally quite difficult to make use of anything one has heaped a load of dirt atop of.

[@SAOS451316]

That's a lot of skeletons, and in time for Halloween! They'll teach us so much about the Viking Age, and I'm going to make one of those brooches now.

[@jackieolsen7707]

Did you know that the town of Odense, near the site means Odins Vik ( = Odins Place ) and near Odense is also where a knife with the oldest Rune inscripton is found. Dated to around the 2-3 th century.

[@steelstanding8005]

Odins Island

[@skloak]

Skellybones is my favorite word of the week, I’ll have to find a good way to use it! And yes please all the archaeology news! As somebody else has said, I come across a lot of “new in archaeology” things on the old interwebs, but most of it doesn’t feel trustworthy. You, however, seem pretty trustworthy, so I’d be happy to have you as a source. Fifty! Jeezus. That’s so much data. Wow.

[@kellysaderholm6741]

I love archeology news videos❤ hope you feel better soon.

[@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey]

Lol, your 'Skellybone' reminds me of a child's show many years ago called, 'Rent a Ghost', where the jester ghost referred to the telephone, in the place he haunted, as the 'Telling bone'. Enjoyed your video very interesting to find out about new finds, Diolch yn fawr.

[@KatieRae_AmidCrisis]

Timothy Claypole!

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Catweazel had a "telling bone" too.

[@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey]

@@juliaforsyth8332 Yes he did, I forgot about our water tower friend!

[@mnk9073]

I can't help picturing a Norman merchant rolling up to Sweden with his banging sword spacers perfect for the modern warrior only to find that all the men of the region were off raiding England so he took a deep breath and startet touting "Beautiful Norman -Swo- uh _Broches!_ Get them here, latest fashion from Paris!".

[@tessjuel]

0:36 That's an interesting location for a viking find. According to some sources Odense was named after Odin, a legendary petty king and warrior who migrated from the area around the river Don and settled there with his tribe. According to Snorre Sturlason Odin was the forefather of both the Swedish and the Norwegian royal houses of the Viking age and although Snorre doesn't state it outright, it's clear that he regard this as the same Odin who was worshipped as a God by the Norse people. The connection between king Odin and the god by the same name is almost certainly wrong because the timelines don't seem to match. But the story of a group of immigrants who settled in the land between two old Norse tribes (the Angles and the Danes) is still quite plausible and if it's possible to get some DNA samples from these skeletons they may well produce some rather surprising results.

[@SIC647]

Snorri and Saxo both spun tales about how Odin and the other gods were regular people who had existed and who deceived people into thinking they were gods. And it was meant to turn people away from the old gods and become Christian. There is no doubt Odense was a place of worship for Odin, and Thor, too, by the way. Odins-vi, the old spelling outright means "Odin's temple", or more specifically "Odin's holy place" as it was an outside grove by the bogs for sacrifices

[@loquaciousky]

Love a 'here's this thing and here's why it's cool' video, especially with new finds! Please take care of yourself, though!

[@schoolingdiana9086]

We’re Native Americans, directly descended from 2 tribal chiefs--and also Harald Fairhair and Malcolm III. My oldest son is continuing the tradition-he and his Indigenous Thai wife just had their first baby, born in China. A big mwaahaahaa to future genealogists and archeologists. I’d be tickled pink if that red glass bead could possibly be traced to my ancestral Muscogee-Creek lands in the U.S. southeast. Turns out we taught the Mayans how to do pottery-there’s a mound north of Atlanta that was excavated and the Mayan style pottery predated the Mayans making any pottery by 3000 years. Exciting stuff all around!

[@annejeppesen160]

While it is possible for the glass bead to come from Vinland (Canadian east coast iirc) it’s a very slim probability. Most likely the glass itself stems from southern Europe (e.g. Venice) and was remelted to a bead in or around Denmark. The Old Norse LOVED their glass beads! And was exceptionally skilled in making them. The Vinland settlers came (again iirc) from what is now called Norway, by way of Iceland and Greenland. That’s a long way for a glass bead, though not impossible. Meanwhile the people living in what is now called Denmark had a thriving trade network with Europe and to some extent the Middle East (they recently found coins minted in present day Baghdad)

[@somewherenicefarmstay6146]

How interesting.

[@antonvrb1510]

More likely you will be recearced from your search history.😢 Please excuse my pelling...

[@laraetoday]

Yes! More archaeology news would be great, Jimmy. I read a lot of long, lengthy articles - but would love to get news with your perspective and 2 cents. I still can't believe you don't have your own show on TV or streaming somewhere. KZbin is cool, but you're so good at this - and your personality that these videos comes with is smart, fun and quirky on top of being just a tish adorable. A perfect combination IMO. ;)

[@spacecardinal]

"MO" as well.😊

[@caspenbee]

How thematic for the season! Imagine being buried in your ferrari. Wild.

[@roxiepoe9586]

I don't believe the things I see on the internet except when you say them. Now I can just wait for more pictures and more information and all that without believing that I have, yet again, been led up the garden path. :) I want to see the red bead! Yes! Please do 'news update' content. I want to hear it all. (I also follow The Prehistory Guys and they do a news update every month or so and I am there for it.)

[@TheWelshViking]

Me too! Love a good bead

[@lillithpeacock9623]

Yes please! More videos that keep us updated on ArchNews!!! I really appreciate a professional like yourself sharing information that can be trusted. Thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge with us all ☺

[@justdna4385]

An awesome find in Åsum!

[@martinekman9322]

brilliant video as always, i'm so excited to see what's gonna come out of this! on danish pronunciation, if you want pointers, "fyn" has the same "y" sound as the german word über, but with a glottal stop. and "odense" has the pressure on the first syllable c:

[@danam.5127]

FIFTY skeletons is an incredible find! I would love to see more archaeology news videos in the future. I'm not going for complete accuracy in my own Viking kit since I'm blending my Norwegian heritage with my Okinawan heritage (a yukata under a smokkr), but I love the idea of wearing a single red bead around my neck!

[@susansamata3696]

Well, these skeletons have certainly sparked our Welsh Viking right up! Good to see:)

[@JootjeJ]

That was really interesting, thank you! I wouldn't grumble to hear and see more of those.

[@invadersin5203]

I reckon a Jimmy + Milo collab should happen in the future :) Always love your archeology vids

[@rsearls5064]

Absolutely would like more archaeology news!

[@DullyDust]

I appreciate that you make our location names sound so fancy, but if you pronounce it with a bit more of a farmer's drawl you'd probably get a bit closer. Like Odense is more phonetically like oh - ð - en - seh. The soft D like ð is more prevalent in many Danish words. Thank you for pointing this news out! ❤ Since I don't live in my home country anymore I don't always see news like this anymore and it's so extremely exciting ❤❤❤

[@FreyaNaja]

0:37 It’s spelled with an Åå, so the pronunciation is more like OH-sun/sounding like ‘awesome’, both vowels sounding like the English Oo/‘Oh!’. The island is also known as Funen (FEW-nehn) in English.

[@KateVeeoh]

Me looking at the brooches "now that would be a pretty nice biscuit shape". Thanks for the highly interesting video (and the baking inspo!) 🤓

[@nanettebromley8843]

oooh archaeology. pause video, finish row of knitting, put said knitting down and press play on video. Fascinating stuff. Love archaeology. Especially viking period. Would love more videos of what's new in the archaeology world.

[@pocketpet8832]

Hi Jimmy, great news for Denmark and the rest of the world as well as many Viking fans 😀. Thanks for sharing the Skelebones with us. It's always good to see a new video, Skol 🍻

[@krysab6125]

Yes please! More Archeology news and Exciting Skellybones finds! (Also, you reallg *do* need some 'nuance' merch)

[@CanadisX]

Awesome! Looking forward to new possibilities of clothing and other stuff. My reenacting group is going full viking and naturally is looking how to create unique styles while staying authentic

[@samuelleask1132]

This video was Asūm …I’ll close the door on my way out 😂😂😂

[@Wheelgauge-bt7ox]

My ancestors are being unburied and personally I have no problem with it! Hopefully this can help with my curiosity of my bloodline and with the whole world to explore the history as well.

[@Elisabet-w7k]

I guess they are my ancestors as well, and I don't like the idea that they are treated as research objects/"samples" to be stored somewhere else than where they (hopefully) wanted to be buried. Do research, but with some respect.

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

Ah - fresh skeleton day. I think we can all now admit we were getting a tiny bit fed up with the old ones.

[@mememe733]

Very cool video. I’m Danish and hadn’t heard about this before 😅 I think they will have an exhibition at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen at some point 😊

[@addictedtotreasuretrash108]

Hej från Sverige. Skit intressant information. Great news for us all and the future.

[@flagerdevil]

I am from Denmark, and I was just waiting for someone to tell me why and what about it is interesting! Thanks! 😁 Cause reading the articles are often not very interesting (to me at least).

[@EasterWitch]

At least where I live in Scandinavia (an old historic city) we have to get an archaeological survey done first to see if there are any old settlements before any digging is done. They had to do this before redoing the city square (they found some cool stuff, including old settlements and food waste) and when expanding my old school (they decided not to dig there because it would be too expensive to get the archaeological work done)

[@Loweene_Ancalimon]

In my hometown (Alps) in the late 80s, they did some preventive digging where they wanted to run a tram line. Bingo, found the 4th century baptistery. Now the tram tracks run 10m to the West of the original plan, and the square was raised so the site can be visited !

[@lisasternenkind6467]

Great news!!! 😊 I'ld like to know whether there is one of my forefathers among them. I'm German Austrian and I am of 77.8% Germanic and 21.9% Celtic blood. The earliest a family of my forefathers was registered, was in the year of 423 in the north of today's Germany in Schleswig-Holstein when they were registered as Christians in a very small church. They were dwellers in the woods and had 15 children. I suppose they originally came from Jütland. Yet they could have come from any other place in today's Scandinavia too.

[@SaszaDerRoyt]

What an incredible site, looking forward to seeing all the research that comes of it!!! I may well join in making kit based on finds, especially since I didn't previously know that 3-lobed brooches could be used for apron dresses (before I had only seen them placed at the neckline in grave finds, presumably for a collar or perhaps to hold a headscarf in place)

[@SaszaDerRoyt]

Definitely would love more archaeology update videos like this in the future

[@Sonderborg75]

I’ve traced my family back to the 1400s now, excited if I’ll get further back, maybe even find some real Viking dna. And yes, my dna test told me, that I’m very, very Danish, as in 95%. Last 5 percent were north Germany (meaning Slesvig/Denmark) and some Swedish/Norwegian. My family traces back to Fyn and Viborg, so maybe these women are my ancestors too? 😊🤞

[@rainydaylady6596]

How cool would that be? 😃🖖❤️

[@Sonderborg75]

@ Extremely… 😊 But I must say, I’m pretty sure, that I’m a descendent from the Vikings because of my DNA and how far back I can trace my lineage. Also (playing into the cliches of it all…) I’m 176 cm tall (and female), strawberry blonde hair and green eyes… 😂 My grandmother however was only 155 cm and had almost black hair - but blue eyes.

[@torejorgensen5344]

If they have relatives alive today, you are among them. Each person alive had two parents which had two parents and so on. If the parents was 25 years in average for each generation (four generations per century) you would have 2^40 ancestors back then, or 1099511627776 great great ... grandparents. Obviously there are many intermarriages among distant and not so distant relatives throughout the history, so the real number will be much smaller (instead of much bigger than the entire human population), but the math suggests that everybody with ancestry from a region (and the region would at least be Denmark) are related to everybody that lived back then who still have relatives alive. My great grandfather moved with his parents and siblings from Odense to Norway in 1901, so if going back to the viking age and forward again, we are relatives (though probably very distant).

[@HosCreates]

Yay more viking age and Scandinavian skelles! What does this giant bead look like?🤔 pictures?! Cant wait to see the jewelry hauls they dig up!

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

Actually several Danish found bodies have been found out to come from far away. And close to my former home in south Sealand, we have what is clearly part of Trade routes with finds from far away. We traded heavily with The Romans, and more Roman Swords have been found in Denmark, than in the rest of the Roman Empire at all!