Germanic-speaking people move north into Scandinavia before the Viking Age The team then used the method to uncover a later additional northward wave of migration into Scandinavia at the end of the ...

But the Viking Age (750–1050 CE) brought a twist. The team discovered that by the 8th century, a wave of central European ancestry had swept into Scandinavia. This influx reshaped the genetic ...

The study also found evidence of a northward wave of migration into Scandinavia at the end of the Iron Age, between 300 and 800AD, just before the Viking Age. Many Viking Age people across ...

The Vikings were Norse people who came from an area called Scandinavia ... themselves did not leave a written record during the Viking Age (AD700-1100) but Vikings did use runes.