Shetland Islanders

https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2019/09/03/latest-study-shows-shetlanders-are-genetically-more-scottish/ Quoting:

Shetlanders have overwhelmingly Scottish DNA according to a major research project; one of whose contributors is well-known Orkney geneticist Professor Jim Wilson. While Shetland is famed for its Viking ancestry, the Edinburgh University research project shows that only 20 per cent of isles DNA is traceable to Norwegian ancestors. It also shows how much the present day genetic makeup of Scotland owes to Dark Age populations, with surprisingly little shift since then. Orkney and Shetland are nonetheless the most genetically distinct populations in the whole of Britain and Ireland, but are each other’s closest relatives . . .

Shetland is not uniform in the amount of Norse DNA detected. Yell and the West Side are highest at 28 per cent, with Fair Isle and the Central Mainland only 12 per cent. Orkney is the next most Viking area of the UK, with 18 per cent Norse ancestry, followed by the Western Isles, with nine per cent.

The survey is the largest ever of the genetic landscape of Scotland, and Britain and Ireland more generally, and published in the top journal PNAS. It is also a time machine back to the genetic makeup of the 19th Century as it used subjects, many born in the 1940s and 50s, whose grandparents were all born in the same parish. Since then, said Wilson, there will undoubtedly have been a considerable increase in DNA from England and south-west Scotland within the Shetland population . . .

The survey also highlights strong genetic links between Scotland and Ireland and an Irish/Scottish element in Iceland, both factors that are historically well known.

Examples of Shetland people:











Some old photos here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-51370635