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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] DNA shows Celtic hero Somerled's Viking roots
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:42:41 -0500
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Ken Nordtvedt wrote:
> I take it you threw in the Ukranian and Polish ancestry because of
> connections to the Scandinavian dynasty in Kiev? If not, what ties in those
> places?


OK, OK. I threw them in because the traditional ... and somewhat
but not totally dodgy ... genealogy of Man has as mother of Olaf,
King of Man, one Maria, daughter of Elizabeth, daughter of
Jaroslav I of Kiev. From him back there is then a Swedish connection.

The Norwegian connection back through the Jarls of Orkney is
pretty secure.

Doug McDonald

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