Do you consider yourself viking descent?

Question

I am a male, 6'3 with blonde hair and blue eye, i can trace my ancestry back to Scotland, do i have viking blood in me?

Just a side note, vikings invaded, raided, and settled in parts of Scotland in the past.......

Answer 1

The Vikings were all over the British Isles especially Scotland and Ireland.

I am of both Scottish and Irish descent so I am sure that between the 10th century when the Vikings were powerful there and the 18th century when my Gaelic ancestots came to America, some Viking blood was accumulated. Also I have some ancestors who are suspected as being of Norman descent which would mean Vikings.

We are all a mix. Cool, huh?

Answer 2

Definitely.By paper trail and by DNA testing, I have traced back to all of the British Isles (including the Island of Mann and others), Iceland (!), Denmark, Norway, and all the others.
Two suggestions: get a good history book (not the ones they use in schools with some point they are trying to proove) and you will see that the peoples way back when moved around a lot...One of the kings of England in the 800's was a Dane! During that time period, many of the kings of Europe were related... Kings of one country would marry a woman of a royal family from another country, to avoid the problems the Roman Caesars incurred (incest).
The other suggestion is to have DNA testing. No, it is not who your ancestors were thousands of years ago, but hundreds. No problem for families like mine; 5 generations ago, they were born before the Revolution.
But, yes the Vikings did land on Scottish shores, as well as the rest of the British Isles. Some of the smaller islands of Scotland were peopled by an ancient people that were there when the Romans came to the British Isles and until the 20th century, spoke a completely different dialect!
Check these things out.

Answer 3

Very likely some. Vikings invaded, raped and pillaged, and some of them stayed. They went to many countries, including Scotland. Many of their descendants travelled too, so the Viking diaspora is everywhere. I'm sure there are millions with viking blood in them, they don't have to be blonde with blue eyes - they might have inherited different characteristics from their other ancestors

Answer 4

If your ancestors came from the Hebrides, the Shetlands, or from the northern Highlands, for instance, Caithness, then you probably have some Norwegian ancestry along with the usual mix of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon. Lowland Scots, on the other hand, are more likely to be a mixture of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon--just like their neighbors below the Tweed.

And yes, since some of my ancestors came from the Hebrides (the islands of Mull and Eigg), they most likely were a mixture of Celtic and Norwegian.

Answer 5

hey, beef...
you run into something of an overlap.
"purists" in genealogy normally work with identifiable or provable records for specific individuals. Very skeptical of that which cannot be documented.
On the other hand.. you would probably be interested in dna testing, which has the more ancient or broader view. What it works with are "haplogroups", that (kind of) link into ethnic heritage, but back maybe thousands of years, well before any reliable records existed. DNA won't show your ancestors, but it can (in some cases) be used along with paper records for comparative conclusions.
I can't guarantee what you will learn, but you might investigate that angle, if it really is of interest to you.

Answer 6

If you know when your ancestors were around, the Viking Answer Lady has a nice time line.

Answer 7

Ofcourse!!and probably celtic too and a few other bits thrown in.But not all vikings are tall and blonde, Im short with dark hair and my father is a scot!!

Answer 8

If you are from Scotland then no, you are not related to Vikings. Vikings came from Scandinavia, which consists of the modern countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Scotland didn't even have vikings. And even if they did, there's a good chance you wouldn't be related to them anyway. They were a very small minority compared to the rest of their civilizations makeup.

Answer 9

if you have any ancestry over there by schotland then yes you have viking blood in you.