Swedish DNA: What is the Genetic History of Sweden?

Swedish DNA: What is the Genetic History of Sweden?

Chapters:
0:00 Swedish DNA
0:30 Early Genetic History and Ancient Cultures
3:43 Viking Period
6:48 Post-Viking Period
7:24 Modern Genetics of Sweden & Haplogroups

How has the genetics of the land we call Sweden today changed over time and what is the genetic makeup of modern Swedes? Now Sweden is the largest country in Scandinavia and its name is thought to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own", referring to one's own tribe from the tribal period. Variations of this root are seen down through history, with the Roman author Tacitus referring to these northern people as the Svear, or Suiones, in 98 AD.

But what about the genetic history of Sweden? Well during the last ice age, Sweden was under a thick sheet of ice for large periods, known as the Scandinavian Ice Sheet. The ice age ended for good around 11,700 years ago, and as the ice gradually melted, hunter gatherers started moving back into the land we call Sweden today. Now these initial hunter gatherers were similar to Western Hunter Gatherers, but there was a later movement of Eastern Hunter Gatherers into ancient Sweden as well. This mixture of Western Hunter Gatherers and Eastern Hunter Gatherers produced what we call Scandinavian hunter-gatherers.

Sources:

Rodríguez-Varela, R. The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present 2023, Cell 186, 32–46 The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present: Cell

Haplogroup I1 (Y-DNA) - Eupedia

Scandinavian Ice Sheet | History, Geography, Map, & Definition | Britannica

Haplogroup N1c (Y-chromosomal DNA) - Eupedia

Haplogroup H (mtDNA) - Eupedia

Western hunter-gatherer - Wikipedia

Eastern hunter-gatherer - Wikipedia

Scandinavian hunter-gatherer - Wikipedia

Funnelbeaker culture - Wikipedia

History and genetics of the Corded Ware culture - Eupedia

Battle Axe culture - Wikipedia

Hanseatic League - Wikipedia

Forest Finns - Wikipedia

Creative Commons Imagery:

Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden File:DIMG 5456 (4735649602).jpg - Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Deed - Attribution 2.0 Generic - Creative Commons


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[celtichistorydecoded]

Do you have Swedish ancestry? Please let me know your thoughts below and subscribe for more... Thanks for watching!

[robertodebeers]

The Angels fell from Heaven and landed in Sweden to become tennis players and movie stars.

[Wheelgauge-btox]

As a Swedish Irish and Scottish blooded American it is funny as hell to hear people butcher my Swedish last name🤣

[DennisHäll-bl]

The name Sweden originates from the ancient Viking kingdom known as Svear, or Swedes in English, which was centered in Old Uppsala.

[niklasbystrom]

89, 2% Scandinavian DNA, 9, 9% Finish DNA and 0, 9% Inuit DNA, according to MyHeritage. 85% Scandinavian DNA, 14% Finish DNA and 1% Baltikum DNA according to Ancestry. I am born and live in Sweden. I also have Sami ancestry on my fathers side.

[TroyDowVanZandt]

As an American whose family roots date back to the mid-1600s on my father's side and the early 1700s on my mother's, my genetics are largely representative of colonial America. When I got back a 23-and-Me report that showed a tiny admixture of Scandinavian, I had to sit down and think where it came from. Yes, there were Swedes in North America in the 1600s, but I suspect the admixture came as part of one of the last waves of Northwest European immigration: the Irish.

[susannenymanback]

Thank you. Very interesting. Love from Sweden ❤🇸🇪🇸🇪

[lia]

I’m an American with a mixture of ancestry from all over Europe. I knew I had a bit of Swedish ancestry, but the coolest part is being of mitochondrial haplogroup V, which is fairly common amongst the Saami!

[carmenm.]

As a Dutch person with a Spanish dad I considered myself half Dutch half Spanish. After a DNA test I found out that my Dutch is really a mix of Frisian Danish Norwegian Swedish and a whole lot of English 😂..the Spanish side came out as 50% Iberian. Something that surprised me most really because my dad had some foreign ancestors we know. So it would mean that my dad was a 100% Iberian? Something I think not to be plausible.

[mh-luum]

This was great.
Cant wait to watch the Finnish DNA video.
I hope you get to that one soon.

[jabato]

I am a native Spaniard and was strange for me to find in my DNA 2% Scandinavian, 2, 2% Finnish and 1, 6% Baltic. I know we got some Visigoths here but the traces left are not significant.

[paul]

I have 2% Swedish ancestry which doesn't mean a lot genetically. But one of my grans maiden name was Gemmell which does have Scandinavian origins.

[vladimirchernov]

I'm a sweed with blonde hair and Grey eyes. I have 4% Neanderthal DNA. I believe my grey eyes, my father's red hair and green eyes, and my mother's blue eyes are all Neanderthal. I also have scots/irish DNA. I don't know how to find. Y haplogroup. Another test maybe

[MindTrippin-SinceBirth]

As a Swede i chooses to belive it`s straight from Thor and Oden

[jamescoe]

Swedes are tall good looking people so different from the rest of the world. This is best explained by visitors from other planets who like landing in the northern parts of the earth.

[PaletoB]

Sounds like the vikings tinder was to go on a raid and trade sea journey...

[joshuaperkins]

Another great video filled with detail and an excellent presentation, thank you.

So I’ve taken probably to many dna test and played around in some calculators. The results I get from the main players, such as 23&me, Ancestry and FTDNA, show up as Norwegian, British and Swedish. British being mostly English with some Scottish, depending on the company, and a little Irish, and Welsh. This is more or less what I new about my family.

Now when I get into some of the other companies and calculators, that’s when things like Balitic, Asian or Native American, most definitely Sami, start to show up. Hints of Roma trail as well. The biggest take away though is the high Celtic dna I get quite often in these calculators, which have their biases and limitations, but when you see a continuous pattern and then studies and videos like this come out, it makes sense. Celtic from my British, Celtic from a bit of German and French I have and then Celts in Sweden and Norway. Man exciting, but exhausting sometimes. 😂
I hope by sharing my findings and videos like this will help people in their ancestry quest.

Thanks again:)

[ABHB]

This are totally wrong! Oldest findings after humans in Sweden are as old as 13-14000 year old. The history in Sweden started way before the last ice age.

The findings were found in Finjasjöns at Mölleröd.

In Dalarna there are human findings brunt skull dated as old as 9000 year they are caller Brandgravar but findings as old as 10 000 years have been discovered.

So please do your research.

[CreativeHuckleBerry]

A FinnishSwedish Viking here from Ostrobothnia Finland-Vörå

Maternal Haplogroup-H1
Paternal Haplogroup- I-L258

23andMe estimates:
81.8% Finnish
Genetic groups:
-West-Central Coast of Finland

14.5% Scandinavian
Genetic groups:
-Arctic Norway
-Eastern Norrland
-Easter Svealand and southern Norrland
-Western Svealand

I have more Neanderthal DNA than 79% of other 23andMe customers.
less then 2% of my DNA is Neanderthal.

Enough that both my knees need operation 👍

[fredrikcarlsson]

Swede here, who has a lot of family from around Finnerödja (which literally means Finn-cleared land) in central Sweden, named so from the forest Finns you mentioned briefly, who were brought in by the king (of Sweden and Finland at the time) from economically depressed eastern Finland (maybe Russia today?), to turn unproductive forestland into more productive agricultural land, thus broadening the tax base, etc. I believe the immigrants who settled in Sweden were provided with some startup capital and tax exemption for a few years. Sweden's best strawberries come from the area, but maybe I am biased.