Mini Documentary about Scotland&#039;s Viking Ancestry

Title: Mini Documentary about Scotland's Viking Ancestry
Submitted by: Suzanne
Description: Contirubutor description: Mini documentary on BBC Global about the genetic impact the Vikings had on Scotland. Vikings conquered many of Scotland's islands, as well as the mainland, in the 8th and 9th Centuries. They came, they conquered, they left, or so the story seemed to go.

Now historians are re-assessing the legacy the Vikings left on islands like Islay, a small island of about 3,000 inhabitants off the west cost of Scotland.

Linguistic and DNA evidence now suggests that the Vikings never really left at all, as BBC Reel's Melissa Hogenboom reports.

Reporter and producer: Melissa Hogenboom
Edit & Camera: Adam Proctor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw3VbJ0RTcQ
Identifier: NM-01553
Contributor: BBC See all items with this value
Date: 6 June 2022; 2026-10-29
Temporal Coverage: Modern (Twenty-first Century)
Format: Digital Content
Language: English [eng]
Type: YouTube See all items with this value; Documentary See all items with this value; Screen See all items with this value; Media & Storytelling See all items with this value
Subject: Shield; Helmet; Fur Cloak; Axe; Spear
Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0