Roots

The results of the DNA tests that the Gorse Fox had commissioned have arrived. There are no huge surprises in the analysis though he was a little disappointed that there were no immediate big obvious matches with anyone else.

So it looks as if his roots are predominantly from the northern parts of Ireland, and the southern parts of England. Clearly there is some Scandinavian input though he would guess that could be Viking input. All of the remaining "trace" ethnicity is scattered around Europe (with 1% Western Asia!)

Now he needs to try and make links with those distant cousins that were signalled in the results to see if we can work out where the links are. It's quite exciting really and the Gorse Fox has just ordered a DNA kit for the Silver Vixen.