PaleBlueDot
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It is my understanding that the Normans who settled in Northern Sicily made significant contribution to the genetic makeup of its people, with something like 15% carrying l1 in certain areas even today.
However, the Normans were in many ways just as "french" as they were nordic, and would have intermarried with locals for some time.
If it is even possible to answer, my question is: What is the "non-viking" part of Normans before they arrived in Sicily? Were these more "Celtic" or "Frankish"? Or are these groups perhaps so similar that it is virtually impossible to tell, from the genetics Sicilians (in areas where l1 are hotspots)?
A possible difficulty in answering this is that the norsemen of Normandy would have married local women, and so even though their "blood" was largely "Celtic" or "Frankish", they perhaps still carried mainly norse Y-dna? I don't expect many Norman women came along to Sicily, so Frankish/celtic mtDNA is probably not present in Sicily. But maybe some of the Normans had Celtic/Frankish fathers and Norse mothers? After all, daughters of Normans needed to marry someone too.
However, the Normans were in many ways just as "french" as they were nordic, and would have intermarried with locals for some time.
If it is even possible to answer, my question is: What is the "non-viking" part of Normans before they arrived in Sicily? Were these more "Celtic" or "Frankish"? Or are these groups perhaps so similar that it is virtually impossible to tell, from the genetics Sicilians (in areas where l1 are hotspots)?
A possible difficulty in answering this is that the norsemen of Normandy would have married local women, and so even though their "blood" was largely "Celtic" or "Frankish", they perhaps still carried mainly norse Y-dna? I don't expect many Norman women came along to Sicily, so Frankish/celtic mtDNA is probably not present in Sicily. But maybe some of the Normans had Celtic/Frankish fathers and Norse mothers? After all, daughters of Normans needed to marry someone too.