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A DNA study of Britons has shown that genetically there is not a unique Celtic group of people in ... As just about anyone in Orkney will tell you, Orcadians are different. This study underlines ...
The blood of Norwegian Vikings still flows in the residents of the Orkney Islands ... distinct from the Scots and the original Celtic inhabitants of Northern Ireland. The hope is to shed light ...
It seems the genetic patterns we see today have been shaped by the geopolitical landscape of millennia gone by. Another Celtic Kingdom, Rheged, matched a genetic group in modern Cumbria.
A pair of mystery knitters and crochetters are brightening up public spaces in the Orkney town of Kirkwall Mystery knitters and crochetters have been brightening up public spaces in the Orkney ...
The Thistle & Shamrock: Trails and Sails From Irish cowboys on the plains to the Orkney men in Hudson Bay, we unpick the Celtic roots of North American folk music with Skip Gorman, Graham Rorie ...