Salme pre-Vikings, more analysis

 According to my previous post, the pre-Vikings killed and buried with their boats on the west coast of Estonia, in Salme, in 750AD were Swedes. Now there was a lot of controversy on the forum about this and the view was put forward that they were Estonian Vikings. It is true that the ancient inhabitants of Saaremaa, like the Vikings, were involved in piracy and taxed the inhabitants of nearby regions on their raids. They even went as far as Denmark on their raids. But this is not enough evidence for the ethnicity of the victims of the boat burial. According to a more logical explanation, it was the locals who killed the Swedish settlers. In the previous post, I stated that they were Swedes of autosomali heritage.

 Now I will bring additional evidence in the form of YDNA. Haplogroup distribution of the deceased: 19 belonged to group I, 7 to group N and 6 to group R, however, 6 of those belonging to group N belonged to the L550 mutation, which is known to occur in Sweden, although it is also common in the Baltics. It has been shown to have also belonged to the Ruriks mentioned in Russian heroic tales. The accuracy of one N result did not reach the same level.

 All ydna results are raw data produced by my software. The results are reliable at the haplogroup level, but ensuring an accurate downstream result requires manual verification. It is not necessary in this context.