Heather Anne Campbell Instagram – My grandmother was from Sweden, which was the catalyst for my interest in Scandinavian history. I read books like Neil Price’s extraordinary Children of Ash and Elm, or Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, and took a class taught by @shieldmaidenpdx.
When I had a recurrence of cancer, I romanticized my ice baths and ice gloves by imagining Viking warriors in the North Sea, facing impossible odds.
Yesterday, @23andme released an update that searched archeological DNA records and compared them with your DNA, and I learned that I am directly related to the Vikings they’ve dug up in ship burials — and it blew my mind. Suddenly, it wasn’t just stories I was reading, it was family histories. Fucking insane. | Posted on 22/Mar/2024 19:54:42
