Talk:Demographics of Iceland

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Max Naylor 08:57, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inuit Ancestry

Considering the interchange between the original settlers of Iceland with those of Greenland and the patterns of immigration between the two countries, what are the percentages of Inuit ancestry among the native Icelandic population? Relir 20:17, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm not aware of any particular patterns of immigration between the two countries, the contact between them has been very limited until the latest decades. According to the Icelandic statistics office, 53 people living in Iceland in 2006 were born in Greenland. --Bjarki 22:21, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

It's going to be very low. There was no known intermarriage between the Greenlanders and the Inuit population; Scandinavian DNA is not in evidence in the modern Greenlander population. --Sliderman 21:07, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually there was, if not intermarriage, interprocreating. I distinctly remember a study a few years ago, which said, that about 6% of South Greenlandic genes are Norse. I believe it was seen/heard on KNR. Mulder1982 (talk) 11:00, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Homogeneity

Here again, as in the article Icelanders, we find this claim about the relative homogeneity of the population of Iceland with reference to a recent mtDNA study. This study, while widely publicised, has also been criticised, as is natural, since it is at variance with all other studies on the same subject, i.e. the genetic profile of Icelanders (see e.g. [1]). --85.220.94.128 22:14, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Arts and Literature

I love "Iceland's Bell" as much as anyone, but what's this discussion of the arts and literature of Iceland doing in an article about its demographics? --Sliderman 21:08, 13 July 2007 (UTC)