I do have university access to the original study “Population genomics of the Viking world” and also got a pdf copy on my hdd. I can hand it out via pm for those, who really are interested, no problem, but I can’t share it here publically for copyright reasons. (Some people might love to sue me, if I did.)
The book you mention is not to be taken seriously. I don’t really know what the author is talking about, when he mentions two distinctive phenotypes for Scandinavia "being common". I can only assume, that he means two distinctive ethnicities, who used to inhabit Scandinavia: Nordic people (typically blonde, tall and blue eyed, not all, but a very significant majority) and indigenous Sami people. The latter were indeed of short stature, had black hair, broad faces and dark eyes (due to interbreeding with Nordic people you will see different phenotypes today in Sami people, but originally they were as described: short, dark haired, dark eyed, broad faced). But those aren’t Vikings; the indigenous Sami had a different lifestyle (reindeer herders) and they were colonized by the Nordic people. Only the Nordic people were Vikings!
You ask me to make a rather high effort post with quotes and citation of sources in order to back up my claims and argumentation from my previous post, while you made a rather low effort post (no offence) by simply linking a non-academic site, where the possibility of black Vikings are “discussed”. (It’s not a real discussion btw, the goal of this article is to justify and defend the “Californication” of European history by adding as much diversity as possible in popular TV shows no matter the historic facts, because the show runners want to please liberal & woke American visual habits).
I could do so, writing a small academic essay here, but I won’t for several reasons.
Foremost I lack the time right now. In a week from now on I’ll be on summer vacation abroad with my loved ones and still have got a lot of things to get off my desk before that. My time is precious and do I really want to waste it debating on a pirate adult games & vn board?
Secondly I doubt, if it’s worth it. Because it won’t simply stop, after I will have convinced you, that you were wrong. After all this is the internet and proving random strangers on the internet claiming silly things to be wrong is a very much futile task. No offence, but as Einstein once said: "two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity…"
A few pages (maybe even just a few posts) from here in this very thread the next one will pop up, who will feel entitled to raise a very strong opinion on the topic, despite knowing very little actually combined with zero self-reflection, who will claim silly things he might have snapped up somewhere.
So just a few posts after mine, people will not have read, what was discussed already, they won't even bother, because most are totally ignorant. More will pop up, claiming that everything I wrote was wrong, because they’ve read the leftist activist wannabe journalist articles, who deliberately misinterpreted the conclusions of the study in order to push their modern day “inclusive” and “multicultural” agenda.
No matter how much I'd prove them to be wrong, the next one will pop up claiming the very same things as his predecessor a few pages earlier. It would be an endless circle. Do I really want to fight this upcoming tide of low effort posts without any real deep going knowledge on the topic? As a matter of fact, I’ve got better things to do.
The problem is, that critical thinking isn’t taught today. People are spoon-fed with lots of ideology nowadays, but very few actual knowledge. People should not ask the “wrong questions” and begin to think freely, no government in the West is interested in this (Of course way more openly autocratic ruled ruled China or Russia aren't, too). Most governments in the world want to have obedient consumer citizen, easy to manipulate. That’s why many people aren’t capable to detect manipulation via easily accessible mass media and popular culture…
But I won’t leave you completely empty handed. I also think that a video is way more suitable for the audience in here.
One of the authors of the original study: “Population genomics of the Viking world” is Ellingvåg Sturla. He was shocked, when he saw, how the media deliberately misinterpreted the finding of the study and did a youtube video to correct that. Of course the damage was done already and many people will just read the third party misinterpretations, which have gone viral, instead of the original study, just like
PashiGames did!
Here is, what one of the co-authors of the original study has got to say about the flawed media coverage and that the data set of the study included a lot of non-Nordic (hence non-Viking) people, which surprise surprise led to the conclusion, that many in these samples had dark hairs and dark eyes (because they weren't real Vikings).
Next to the examples I gave in my previous post, 2nd, 3rd, etc. generation descendants of Vikings having intermixed with local women, whose phenotype was more like the one of their local mothers (remember blondism is recessive genetically, so if a tall blonde man interbreeds with a dark haired local woman, the children have got a high chance to inherit the dark hair of the mother and also the dark eyes, even more so in the 3rd or 4th generation, if the interbreeding with local people of darker phenotype goes on), were part of the samples of the study. The database also included DNA taken from burials of Sami people, who adapted coastal raiding lifestyle from their Viking neighbors, but weren’t Viking!
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For even more insight I very much recommend the 1h 30 min interview of Sturla, co-author of the study, by English youtuber and historian Tom Rowsell
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Least but not last in general you should beware, that utter bullshit like this is also considered to be "science" nowadays... tells you a lot about the decline of quality of universities and the outright degeneration of the West.
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