Re: First Settlers --Iceland

[Iain Laird <Iain.Laird@btinternet.com>]

At 08:56 07/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
> Sounds like their Viking
> "wives" refused to go so they had to go
> "collect"
> some women from Ireland and Scotland to take along.
> Laurel
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <CMelahn@aol.com>
> To: <sinclair@matrix.net>
> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 7:38 AM
> Subject: First Settlers --Iceland
>
>
> > In the interest of sharing freely, a Paul Carr shared an item with
> another
> > list I am on, and I thought this group, if any, might be
> particularly
> > interested in the research he happened across.  If any of us
> are strongly
> > interested, we could probably find out more/confirm the research
> findings
> by
> > tracking down the researchers mentioned below.   I don't
> recall us talking
> > specifically about Sinclair "first presence" on Iceland,
> but I would bet
> that
> > someone within our group has thought about it.
> >
> > His message:
> >
> > This may be of interest to some:
> >
> > (from the Irish Professional newsletter)
> >
> >
> > RESEARCH INTO GAELIC PRESENCE IN ICELAND
> >
> > - Research carried out by Icelander Agnar Helgason, in conjunction
> with
> >
> > genetic anthropologist Dr Dan Bradley of Trinity College, has
> confirmed a
> >
> > strong Gaelic presence in the first settlement of Iceland. 
> Using the Y
> >
> > chromosome in the case of male ancestry and the mitocondrial DNA in
> the
> >
> > female, it has been possible to support the proposition that, while
> most
> >
> > of the male population involved in the settlement of Iceland were
> of
> >
> > Scandinavian origin, the majority of females had Gaelic ancestry,
> coming
> >
> > from either Ireland or Scotland.
> >
> >
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There's a frozen food store in the UK called "Iceland", and
their catch phrase is "Mum's gone to Iceland".  This
information adds new meaning!

Yours aye

Iain 

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