G'day Rowan,

Not pursuing the Australian founding population side... but with reference to my "Scandinavian" dating - I should probably have been more specific and referred to what we lump together as "Vikings" - the seafarers who build such sophisticated ships and sailed beyond the known limits of their day.

Irrespective of land-based movements of the previous 20 -odd millennia, I have read of evidence that the direct ancestors of these "Vikings" were of (~) "Mediterranean" origins ... around the modern Lebanon ... and moved their field of operations during the Roman ascendancy. I have come across references in one of the Norse Edda to a family proclaiming they were of such ancient lineage that they could trace their forefathers back to "Asia".

I don't know what the DNA looks like!

Regards,

Bob