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Are the Dutch Considered German or Scandinavian? The Dutch are not considered German or Scandinavian in culture or ethnicity, but they do have German as well as Scandinavian ancestry through the three Germanic tribes that originally settled the Low countries: the Franks, Low Saxons, and Frisians.
If you’re looking for the cheapest Scandinavian country to live in, Sweden comes out on top again. It’s very cheap to buy products around Sweden, although you can earn a higher income from other regions, like Norway.
Dutch as far as I know are very Scandinavian-like compared to Germans. They’re the closest modern relatives to Ancient DNA from Medieval Anglo Saxons of England according to a recent study. So Dutch probably have a lot of decent from early Germanic-speakers who originated around Scandinavia and just south of it.
Where do Dutch people get their decent from?
So Dutch probably have a lot of decent from early Germanic-speakers who originated around Scandinavia and just south of it. You should do the Eurogenes K15 test at GEDmatch.
Why are the Dutch so close to the Danes?
There is a strong North-South gradient in ancestry in the Netherlands. Frisian Dutch might be closer to Danes than to Southern Dutch people. That’s simply because ancient Germanic peolpe expanded south from Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein and that the closer one is from the source the more Scandinavian one’s genome tends to be.
How did the Dutch get their ancestry from the Vikings?
During the Iron Age migration, Germanic hunter gatherer tribes of same or similar descent fled the climate and populated the Netherlands area. The Viking DNA was probably related (but with a nasty mutated mean gene). The next seven centuries was a culture slug-fest with the Netherlands often occupied or at war.