CGG107026 Norway Trondelag IA Saami 23andme

Imagine the province of Trøndelag in northern Norway—rugged, wind-carved fjords, forests locked in ice, and winters so long that for weeks the sun barely grazes the horizon. Snow covered the landscape for more than half the year, shaping the rhythms of life, travel, and survival. This video will feature the DNA results of a 5th-century AD woman from this region.

Although the Viking Age was still a few centuries away, its foundations were being laid. Coastal communities in Norway, Trøndelag included, were becoming more hierarchical, and local elites were beginning to consolidate wealth and influence through trade networks stretching across northern Europe.

Even though the Western Roman Empire was collapsing further south, Roman artifacts still flowed into Scandinavia through intermediaries like the Danes, Goths, and Franks.

This sample is one of the earliest definitively Saami samples in the world, dated roughly a century before the Levanluhta samples from Finland.

According to Fst analysis generated with admixtools 2, the closest groups to this sample are the Saami, Siberian Tatars, Mansi, Kazan Tatars, and Uzbeks. The proximity to Mansi and Siberian Tatars indicates a high degree of neo siberian admixture. The furthest ethnicities from this sample are the Orangutans, Gorillas, Chimps, Denisova, Mbuti pygmies, and Papuans.