Viking King loses mother but gains a daughter


	Viking King loses mother but gains a daughter

Moonowler

7-11-2007 3:01 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4445fbd4-9be4-49cb-94fe-9123a74269a6/8A40D6A0-2AB9-4E3C-9DD1-BC004A4CDF0B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg18725155.100&feedId=forensic-science_rss20" href="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg18725155.100&feedId=forensic-science_rss20" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientisttech.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg18725155.100&feedId=forensic-science_rss20">THE last Viking king was not laid to rest with his mother, contrary to the belief of historians for at least the last 500 years. Sven Estridsen died in 1074 and was buried in Roskilde cathedral on the Danish island of Sjaelland. His mother, Estrid, was supposedly buried nearby. Now an analysis of DNA from the royal teeth has revealed that "Estrid" is not his mother after all - she is more likely to have been his daughter-in-law.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg18725155.100&feedId=forensic-science_rss20">Mitochondrial DNA is useful for analysing ancient remains because there are many copies per cell so DNA breakdown causes fewer problems during analysis than it can in nuclear DNA samples.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg18725155.100&feedId=forensic-science_rss20">If Estrid is Sven's mother the DNA should be identical because mitochondria are passed exclusively from a mother to her offspring.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg18725155.100&feedId=forensic-science_rss20">Historical records tell us Sven's mother died aged around 75.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg18725155.100&feedId=forensic-science_rss20">one of Sven's daughters-in-law was also called Estrid.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8A40D6A0-2AB9-4E3C-9DD1-BC004A4CDF0B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>