{"id":853,"date":"2023-05-08T23:19:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T23:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-dna-reveals-vikings-never-left-scotland-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T23:19:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T23:19:51","slug":"how-dna-reveals-vikings-never-left-scotland-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-dna-reveals-vikings-never-left-scotland-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"How DNA reveals Vikings never left Scotland \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dw3VbJ0RTcQ?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Vikings conquered many of Scotland&#8217;s islands, as well as the mainland, in the 8th and 9th Centuries. They came, they conquered, they left, or so the story seemed to go.<\/p>\n<p>Now historians are re-assessing the legacy the Vikings left on islands like Islay, a small island of about 3,000 inhabitants off the west cost of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Linguistic and DNA evidence now suggests that the Vikings never really left at all, as BBC Reel&#8217;s Melissa Hogenboom reports.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter and producer: Melissa Hogenboom<br \/>\nEdit &#038; Camera: Adam Proctor<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dw3VbJ0RTcQ\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikings conquered many of Scotland&#8217;s islands, as well as the mainland, in the 8th and 9th Centuries. They came, they conquered, they left, or so the story seemed to go. Now historians are re-assessing the legacy the Vikings left on islands like Islay, a small island of about 3,000 inhabitants off the west cost of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}