Aylin Woodward (5 de enero de 2023). «Ancient DNA Paints a New Picture of the Viking Age». The Wall Street Journal(en inglés). Consultado el 6 de enero de 2023. «a surge of people coming into Scandinavia from the British-Irish isles and the eastern Baltic region introduced new genetic information into the Viking population between about the years 750 and 1099 [...] the number of slaves brought back to Scandinavia by the Vikings was enough to influence genetic composition of the region [...] the Vikings may have preferentially targeted women and girls as slaves [...] But these newcomers to Scandinavia didn’t flourish [...] a lot of these people that came into Scandinavia during the Viking period didn’t build families and weren’t as efficient in getting children as the people who were already living there».
