The government of Denmark has apologized for the unseemly behavior of its Viking forebears in Ireland.
The apologetic gesture came as a replica Norse warrior ship arrived in Dublin after a voyage across the North Sea.Those "damages to the people of Ireland" did not involve the wholesale transfer of DNA. A genetic study by Trinity College scientists of a "cohort of Irish men bearing surnames of putative Norse origin" found "little trace of Scandinavian ancestry."
Danish Culture Minister Brian Mikkelson said his country was proud of the ship, Havhingsten (The Sea Stallion).
"But we are not proud of the damages to the people of Ireland that followed in the footsteps of the Vikings," he said. [Link]
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