Scandinavia and Rus’: Iron Age Scandinavian → Viking Age Swedish → Viking Age Russian
Here the male lines run unbroken. The Scandinavian Iron Age and Viking Age Swedes share 70%, and Vikings found in what is now Russia share 61% with the Swedes. I1 leads in all three groups.
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Y-DNA: paternal lines
Table of shares
mtDNA: maternal lines
Table of shares
How to read the chart
Each sample is cut to its ancestor at the chosen depth; a sample whose test did not reach that deep stays on its own branch. An asterisk: in this culture the branch also has samples further down. “A → B” is the share of A's samples with a branch of the same line in B: the same branch, its ancestor or a branch under it. A sample whose test stopped higher could belong to any branch under it, so it matches them. The frequency overlap sums the smaller share of every shared branch, such a sample's share split among the branches under it by their shares in both cultures together; it is less swayed by single samples. By age, a sample moves up to the ancestor whose branch had already split off by the chosen year (branch ages are Discover estimates), so every letter is cut at the same time. “Auto” takes the time of the oldest culture chosen, or earlier if a column would not read otherwise. Maternal lines follow the Mitotree tree of FTDNA Discover.
The chain in numbers #
Y-DNA, tree depth 11. Similarity is the overlap of branch frequencies with the culture before.
| Culture | Samples | Leading groups | Similarity with the previous |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Age Scandinavian | 179 | I1 33.0%, R1b 27.9%, R1a 20.1% | — |
| Viking Age Swedish | 144 | I1 28.5%, R1a 26.4%, R1b 22.9% | 70.2% |
| Viking Age Russian | 17 | I1 41.2% (7 of 17, 95% confidence interval: 22–64%), R1a 23.5% (4 of 17, 95% confidence interval: 10–47%), R1b 17.6% (3 of 17, 95% confidence interval: 6–41%) | 61.4% |
Other chains
- Iberian Peninsula: Neolithic Iberian → Chalcolithic Iberian → Bell Beaker culture → Bronze Age Iberian
- Carpathian Basin: Avars, early period → Avars, late period → Hungarians → Medieval Hungarian
- Pontic steppe: Srubnaya → Scythians → Sarmatians
- Central Europe, Bronze and Iron Age: Unterwölbling culture → Urnfield culture → Hallstatt culture → La Tène culture
- Central Europe, dawn of the Bronze Age: Corded Ware culture → Bell Beaker culture → Únětice culture
- Danube, first farmers: Iron Gates Mesolithic → Starčevo culture → Linear Pottery culture
- Steppe from the Dnieper to the Urals: Yamnaya culture → Catacomb culture
- Italy: Etruscan civilization → Roman people → Medieval Italian