Comments on: What It Really Means To Have ‘Viking DNA’

By: pupu loppu

pupu loppu — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 07:12:16 +0000

This gives “my fellow Norwegians” energy, pal

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By: Basil

Basil — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:48:40 +0000

This article is full of assumptions and passive aggressive writing.

Maybe some of us want to know if we have Viking in our blood because of health issues. My father has COPD; his brother doesn’t. I’m 29% Scandinavian and sounds like my father has a higher percent than I do.
I looked into if I had Viking DNA to see if I could help my father. I wanted to find some sort of relief for him if his DNA was understood.

Vikings carried worms from what they ate and it altered their genes where they were predisposed to breathing problems such as COPD and emphysema. There is a A1AT deficiency in the blood and people today with lung diseases and if you have Scandinavian blood and a lung disease, you more than likely have some Viking in you.

Now, that’s not a good thing. It’s a horrible thing and not something you wish you had. I don’t know what people this author is talking to, but it’s not a good thing to have Viking in you. Sounds like a bunch of pretentious people who wish they were that interesting or it’s wishful thinking from the author themselves.

Not everyone goes out of their way to do a DNA test in order to conjure up an identity. That’s stupid. Most of us want to find lost family, or are adopted and want to know where we come from, or like myself, I want to find if there is some relief to a health issue that I suspect a family member has because of a possible deficiency.

Not everything is about creating an identity and the author should know this. Finding out if you have that blood can help other family down the line.

By: Stefan Bruin

Stefan Bruin — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 04:48:51 +0000

Doesn’t this more confirm the way the writer views the world? My test showed that I’m 65% Scandinavian with strong links to Norway and Iceland and 39% Celtic. Now do I think I’m a beserker…..nope. But I link the heritage and insight it gives me in roots. I love Norway and the pagan traditions not because of the test. The test to me is more of an affirmation of things that were already there….
And the comment about symbolism and fascism are just plain dumb. In that line of thought Hindus should ditch the millennia old symbol the swastika because it was misused. I think not…..

By: MEL DAVIES

MEL DAVIES — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:58:38 +0000

I can’t see it as a problem, if it’s just to roughly check a lineage ?
Unfortunately it’s too often used for other, not so benign, motives / objectives ?
If it is true that it isn’t even a proper DNA analysis, then it is wrong, and not worth the complications, +ve, or-ve, that it generates.
If so the author is right to ‘Out’ it!
I, like everybody else, was about 9 months to late to have any say in my lineage….so live with it…you can still go a bit ‘Viking’ if you have a mind to ?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 04:22:33 +0000

As more recent archeological tests indicate, “Viking” is not DNA so much as a job description. The Vikings enrolled many people from their travel into their ranks. I agree with the prior comment, a reasonable interest in DNA is simply to understand your history and where you came from. This was true for me, rather than a sense of exclusivism it helped me understand my diversity, albeit largely Norwegian but different parts of Norway some of which emigrated from Sweden.

By: Mi

Mi — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:42:52 +0000

This article is so stupid. No normal minded person would think like this except of maybe the guy who wrote this. I know people who use DNA test because they also have a family geneology tree, for example my dads family was from Southern Germany and they all have dark hair und brown eyes. My dad always told me that his ancestors are from Italy and well his mom took a DNA test and she got 20% Italian DNA. A DNA test doesn’t change your ethnicity or nationality. Normal people use DNA test to confirm something from a family tree or ancestry. Most people I know don’t care about DNA test or their ancestors. Normal people don’t think about race or racism all day because they work and have family, health issues or other stuff going on.