Scandinavian DNA: ancient origins from a double-doored peninsula to the Viking exchange
Denmark, Sweden and Norway share a genome written by two prehistoric turnovers and one famous exchange: the Viking Age imported as much ancestry as it exported. The ancient-DNA story, and how to read a Scandinavian genome.
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