DNA analysis of the remains of two Vikings from Great Britain and Denmark revealed that both warrior are relatives. This is reported in a press release on Phys.org.
One of the Vikings died in England at the age of 20 in the XI century from the injury of the head and was buried in a fraternal grave in Oxford. Another died in Denmark, when he was over 50 years old, and footprints remained on his skeleton, which suggest that he took part in battles.
Danish Vikings invaded Scotland and England at the end of the 7th century. The youngest of two men could be killed during a raider of Vikings, however, there is another version that the dead, the skeletons of which were discovered in the burial of OSCORDA, became victims of the Decisions of the English king of the second, which gave a massacre of the Danes in 1002.
Although scientists revealed a related communication between the warriors, it remains a secret, who exactly they accounted for each other. They could be a summary brothers, grandfather and grandson or uncle and nephew. In addition, scientists do not know whether they were peers, since there is no material for which it would be possible to carry out the accurate dating of graves.
ETELRED II on nicknamed unreasonable rules of England in 978-1013, after which it was forced to run when the Vikings seized a significant part of the country to retaliation on the mass killings of Danes. Returned to England after the death of King Denmark is a viloborod, after which the rules two years before his death.