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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] DNA shows Celtic hero Somerled's Viking roots
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:25:25 -0600
References: <2637-426E8965-5051@storefull-3137.bay.webtv.net> <426E9A02.90500@scs.uiuc.edu>


I take it you threw in the Ukranian and Polish ancestry because of
connections to the Scandinavian dynasty in Kiev? If not, what ties in those
places?

Ken
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From: "Doug McDonald" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] DNA shows Celtic hero Somerled's Viking roots


> Raymond Whritenour wrote:
> > And see how carelessly this result is interpreted! Somerled may have
> > been 90% "Celtic," but because of his male-line signature, he's somehow
> > considered "Viking."
>
> Somerled himself has unknown ancestry.
>
> But his wife, and mother of his children with paper trails,
> Ragnhilda, was mostly Scandinavian, with some Irish, Scottish,
> Danish, Ukranian and Polish ancestry.
>
> Doug McDonald
>
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