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Originally Posted by Mynydd
I've found Denmark's levels of R1b puzzling, since I first noticed them. What would you speculate as to its reasons? A sediment of the Cimbri and related peoples?
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R1b is generally accepted to be correlated with indigenous peoples of Europe, i.e. paleo-Europeans. It is also generally accepted to be correlated with Celtic peoples. That would, of course, point to a connection in the case of Denmark, between the proto-Jutish peoples, i.e. the Cimbric tribes, the Cimbri, Ambrones, and so on, and this R1b occurence. That is the most likely explanation right off the bat. I have some genetic studies of Mid and North Jutes on my computer, which are the most direct descendants of the Cimbric tribes. Generally, it would be much easier to fully understand this question by separating the haplogroup distribution of the Danish Islands and Jutland. Another interesting fact is the high similarity between the haplogroup distribution of Denmark and of France, and in that regard, the relation between Jutish peoples, both continental and Atlantic, and the Frankish kingdom. Whether this has any connection is entirely speculative, but just an interesting fact.