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Were Vikings from the Baltics?
If you're asking whether Vikings settle in the Baltic area, the answer is yes: they did have settlements in the Baltic region, mostly around the coast.One can conclude that Lithuanians and Vikings did have contacts over time based on archeological finds that indicate cross-influences between ancient Baltic and Scandinavian artifacts. The two populations were in some respects part of a similar cultural landscape.By the 11th century, the Scandinavians are frequently chronicled as clashing with Estonian Vikings (Víkingr frá Esthland), which would ultimately lead to German, Danish and Swedish participation in the Northern crusades and the Scandinavian conquest of Estonia.

What was the DNA of Baltic people : Genetics. The Balts are included in the "North European" gene cluster together with the Germanic peoples, some Slavic groups (the Poles and Northern Russians) and Baltic Finnic peoples. Saag et a. (2017) detected that the eastern Baltic in the Mesolithic was inhabited primarily by Western Hunter-Gatherers (WHGs).

Were Baltic Finns Vikings too

The Viking influence reached the Baltic Finnic coastline in around the eighth century. The warriors adapted to the Scandinavian culture up to a point where it was almost impossible to distinguish them: the jewellery, weapons, ships, settlements, harbours…

Are Lithuanians Slavic or Nordic : The name "Lietuva", or Lithuania, might be derived from the word "lietava," for a small river, or "lietus," meaning rain (or land of rain). Lithuanians are neither Slavic nor Germanic, although the union with Poland and Germanic and Russian colonization and settlement left cultural and religious influences.

Genetics. The Balts are included in the "North European" gene cluster together with the Germanic peoples, some Slavic groups (the Poles and Northern Russians) and Baltic Finnic peoples. Saag et a. (2017) detected that the eastern Baltic in the Mesolithic was inhabited primarily by Western Hunter-Gatherers (WHGs).

In addition to its Nordic identity, there are of course lots of other competing identities in Estonia, including the Fenno-Ugric, the Baltic and the European.

Do Estonians have Viking DNA

Estonians were unusual in that they had their own Vikings – traders, raiders, and explorers like their Norse rivals. Genetically, there seems to have been relatively little exchange of genes between Estonia and the Norse during the Viking Age. Viking was an occupation, a raider, not an ethnic group.Denisova's explanation is simple. "Balts have never lived together with nationalities from Western Europe. This isolation has prevented any watering down of the Baltic gene. Just 1 percent of people in Gotland have it.The Baltic are not Slavic, Estonians together with Finns belong to Finno-Ugric family of languages. Latvians and Lithuanians are Balts.

Baltic Finnic

Linguistically, Finland is a Baltic Finnic country (the only other such country is Estonia). Finnish language isn't related to either Scandinavian languages or Slavic languages (or any other Indo-European languages for that matter).

Are Finns ethnically European : While their genome is still mostly European, they also have some additional East Asian ancestry (varies from 5 up to 10–13 % in Finns).

Are Baltic people Slavs : Despite both inhabiting the same geographic area of Eastern Europe, there are several major differences between the Slavic people and the Baltic people.

Who are considered Baltic

The Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – share common features and a similar history.

Answer and Explanation: Estonia is not a Slavic country, but used to belong to the U.S.S.R. , which included Slavic countries like Russia and Ukraine. Estonians speak a Finno-Ugric language that is related to Finnish and Hungarian.People from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are said to be most closely related to the Vikings. Some physical signs like fair skin and tall stature can be linked to having a possible Viking ancestor.

What is the oldest DNA in Europe : But the oldest DNA of modern humans in Europe, dating back 45,000 years, undermines such a simple story. It comes from people who belonged to a lost branch of the human family tree.