Thanks Erik. We are waiting to receive the video material (and

permissions) on the conference and hopefully you should be able to

catch up on the Introduction and the other talks you missed at the start.

This will also be of benefit to others, particularly the many people

who wanted to attend but were unable to get tickets.

Paa gjensyn,

Steve

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From: Erik

Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]

Sent: 10

December 2010 14:16
To: Steve.Harding@nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Fwd:

Viking DNA book – Apologies for problems with Amazon link, now

resolved

Hi,

that is, I don't

want to have this as a life-style, with football-games at the Wirral and be

mate with the Icelandic guy from the Scandinavian Church,

etc.

I only care

about the viking-stuff on the Wirral etc.

Because I

have a lot of different interests, like blog, genealogy, web-design, etc.,

etc.

So I haven't

got that much spare-time.

So this

isn't about the community-stuff, this is just about the vikingship and the

conference.

Hope you

include the questions from the audience, (from me and others), in the summary,

since I brought up about the vikingship in Meols etc.

Hope this is

alright, don't mean to be to direct/inpolite.

Best

regards,

Erik Ribsskog

PS.

Maybe I'll

go on a movie, or something, part of the Nordic festival, but I haven't got

the time to go there all the time, unfortunately.

I thought about

going on Max Manus, (the Norwegian was-movie), in the Scandinavian chruch last

year.

And I asked

a young Swedish woman, Amanda, who works at Netto, Weaverthree, if she had

been at the Scandinavian Church, but she hadn't.

Also, I have an

employment-case, against Bertelsmann Arvato Microsoft Scandinavian Product

Activation:

http://www.scribd.com/groups/view/14830-arvato-services-ltd-s-microsoft-scandinavian-product-activation

Perhaps you know

someone at the University of Nottingham, who could help me with this case, as

a pro-bono-case, because this case involved/involves many Scandinavians living

in Liverpool.

(My alumumni, at

University of Sunderland, haven't replied).

Also, some of

the employees there, had a lot to do with the Scandinavian Church, (and are

included in the case), an Irish/Swede called Michael O'Shaughnessy etc., so

I'm a bit vary about the Scandinavian Church, to be frank.

So I think

I'll only keep this at the level it's been at, that I only go to the odd

trip/event at my own choice..

Hope this is

alright!

———-

Forwarded message ———-
From: Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:53

PM
Subject: Re: Viking DNA book – Apologies for problems with Amazon link,

now resolved
To: Stephen Harding <Steve.Harding@nottingham.ac.uk>

Hi,

ok, perhaps I'll

do that!

Thank you very

much for your help!

I'll update you

as soon as possible, if I hear something more from the Vikingship-experts in

Norway.

Thank you

very much again for your reply!

Best

regards,

Erik Ribsskog

On Fri, Dec 10,

2010 at 10:22 AM, Stephen Harding <Steve.Harding@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

Thanks Erik

We'll put a summary up soon on http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/-sczsteve and may be able to

include some videos of the talks – including the Intro – once we

have permission from the speakers. If you like I can also put

you in touch with Ingi Thor Jonsson – like yourself a resident

Livepudlian – who runs the annual NICE (Nordic Cultural Events) Festival,

I think you and Ingi would get on very well. There will eventually be a

book based on the Conference but that won't be for some

months,

Ha det bra

Steve

Vikings: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/-sczsteve

steve.harding@nottingham.ac.uk

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From: Erik

Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]
Sent: 07 December 2010

14:53
To: Stephen Harding
Subject: Re: Viking DNA book –

Apologies for problems with Amazon link, now resolved

Hi,

thank you very

much for you e-mail!

I've now

sent about the Vikingship in Meols, to the Norwegian Maritime Museum, at

Bygdøy, in Oslo.

They are

also experts on vikingships, and the conserving of these, like Cultural

Historical Musum, in Oslo are.

I'll update

you more, if and when I hear back from them.

Has anyone

written a summary from the viking-conference, which I could write about on

my blog, since I have a travel-blog etc., where I write about my short

travels from Liverpool to different Norwegian Viking places in the

Wirral.

Thanks in

advance for any help!

Yours

sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog

On Tue, Dec 7,

2010 at 2:23 PM, Stephen Harding <Steve.Harding@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

Dear all,

Firstly apologies for the

bulk nature of this email again and secondly apologies to those who have had

difficulty accessing the book (with its marvellous foreword by Michael Wood)

through amazon.co.uk.:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Viking-DNA-Wirral-Lancashire-Project/dp/1906823464

Although because of the

demand (many thanks!) the site says "Out of Stock" if you click on the "2

new" you should be able to order the book immediately and in time for

Christmas. Thirdly apologies if you have no interest in the

Vikings!

All best

wishes

Steve, Turi and

Mark

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From: Harding Stephen

Sent: 02 December 2010

14:41
To: undisclosed recipients
Subject: Viking DNA

book

Dear Colleagues (including many of you who took part in the

genetic survey of northwest England, 2002-2007, or the Nordic Festival in

2008)

Apologies if you get this message more than once! We are

writing to bring to your attention a publication we have just

produced. It focuses on the first part of a genetic survey of

northern England – the Wirral and West Lancashire project in the

northwest – and explains the basis behind the DNA method to probe

ancestry, the use of surnames to help to localize volunteers to specific

regions of the country, and how genetic methods are being used in

conjunction with historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence to learn

about Viking ancestry. It also gives some examples from

individual results and from comparing populations of people to help show

what these new technologies can achieve.

Publication of the book has been supported by one of the UK

Research Councils who have been supporting the study (the Biotechnology and

Biological Sciences Research Council) – and Nottingham University Press in

conjunction with Countyvise Limited have very kindly produced this for us

and indeed done a splendid job. We would like to stress that we

as authors are not taking any Royalties or profit!

The book is introduced with

a brilliant foreword by famous UK/BBC historian/broadcaster Michael

Wood after which we set out to show as clearly as we can, with the

help of full colour illustrations – what DNA is and how DNA methods can be

used to probe both individual and population ancestry. For probing

Viking ancestry it shows the importance of using DNA in conjunction with

historical, linguistic, place name and archaeological evidence – again with

the help of many colour illustrations, and explains how DNA can be used to

probe paternal ancestry and maternal ancestry either for individuals or for

populations of people, explaining also some of the sometimes complicated

jargon that scientists use.

A major problem in studying

population ancestry is the large population movements that have occurred

since the Industrial Revolution. However there is a strong link

between surnames and paternal DNA ancestry and the book explains how

information such as Henry VIII’s tax rolls, , and even criminal records

(including someone accused of killing a dog in 1348 …. found not guilty!)

can be used to help establish the volunteer base for specific regions of

northern England. Using these methods significant Scandinavian

ancestry (up to 50% of the mixture of DNA from the old populations) has been

shown for Wirral and West Lancashire. One youngster from Wirral

was so impressed with the results for her father she wrote a School

project “My Viking Dad and his Viking Dog”! The book finishes with a look

towards the current testing of other regions of Northern England and the

research currently being undertaken with colleagues in Norway to study the

genetic profile of Scandinavia in the Viking Age.

This broadcast on BBC Radio

4 gives some more information about the survey: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/making_history/making_history_20080520.shtml (after

the first minute or so)

So we think it will be a useful read for anyone interested in DNA

ancestry and, after seeing what we have done in the North West, give people

from other regions an idea of how their own past could be

researched. The book is 150 pages long and extensively

illustrated in colour.. The book has just

become available in all good bookshops in the north West or from

Amazon.co.uk *and would make an excellent Christmas

present.

Steve Harding, Mark Jobling and Turi King

Stephen Harding

DSc(Oxon)
Professor of Applied

Biochemistry
NCMH

Laboratory,
University of

Nottingham
Sutton

Bonington
LE12 5RD, UK

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/-sczsteve

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