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What do you know about Scanian people?

I just got the results for my genetic test for maternal ancestry. They say it goes back to "haplogroup V" which is rare in most of Europe but common among Saami and Scanian people. Saami are the Laplanders of northern Finland and the Scanian are from the south of Sweden, but I can't find out much else about the Scanians so far. I haven't heard about many Laplanders immigrating to Canada, so I think my great great grandmother might have been Scanian. I wonder what Scanian people look like, and how their culture is the same or different compared to the rest of Sweden...?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I think Wikipedia pretty much sums it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sk%c3%a5ne...