As the title says. It is articles like these I am talking about if you have not seen it: Article from the CNN here.
I find this research plausible, as we know a lot about the people migration. (I am no expert on this, but have come across a little about it on my late night googling raids.) But, looking to how blonde and light skinned we are now, it just suprises me. The blue eyes seem to have been in our region for a long time, as there is evidence from a piece of chewing gum that is about 5000 years old - they were able to gather a genetic code from the person that had chewed the gum. And they could prove it was a darkskinned, darked haired blue eyed girl. Looking to this article
But I am wondering what other nations/people wrote of the Vikings. What historical accounts we have, and if any of them discribe the appearance of the vikings, or the norse people. And if this information can back up this research.
Thank you for your time.
Hello this is a misinterpretation of the study the alleles frequency for blond hair and blue eyes where the same.
Exploring twenty-two SNPs with large effect associated with eye color and hair pigmentation, we observe that their frequencies are very similar to those of present-day Scandinavians (Supplementary Note 13). This suggests that pigmentation phenotype in VA Scandinavians may not have differed much from the present-day occupants of the region