Editing Danelaw (section)

==Genetic heritage==
{{See also|Genetic history of the British Isles|Scandinavian migration to the United Kingdom}}
In 2000, the [[BBC]] commissioned a genetic survey of the British Isles by a team from [[University College London]] led by Professor [[David B. Goldstein (geneticist)|David Goldstein]] for its programme '[[Blood of the Vikings]]'. It concluded that Norse (Norwegian) invaders settled sporadically throughout the British Isles with a particular concentration in certain areas, such as [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1689955.stm |title=ENGLAND &#124; Viking blood still flowing |work=BBC News |date=3 December 2001 |access-date=23 April 2010 |archive-date=1 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101073532/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1689955.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> The study did not set out to genetically distinguish descendants of Danish Vikings from descendants of [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] settlers. That was decided on the basis that the latter two groups originated from areas that overlap each other on the continental North Sea coast (ranging from the [[Jutland Peninsula]] to [[Belgium]]) and were therefore considered too difficult to genetically distinguish.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Blood_Of_The_Vikings.asp |title=Blood of the Vikings |work=Genetic Archaeology |year=2014 |access-date=7 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606235749/http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Blood_Of_The_Vikings.asp |archive-date=6 June 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  A 10-year genetic study published in 2020 found evidence of a major influx of Danish settlers into England during the Viking period.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2688-8|title=Population genomics of the Viking world|first=Margaryan|last=Willerslev|journal=Nature|date=16 September 2020|volume=585|issue=7825|pages=390–396|doi=10.1038/s41586-020-2688-8|pmid=32939067|bibcode=2020Natur.585..390M|s2cid=221769227|access-date=17 September 2020|via=www.nature. com|archive-date=26 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326025602/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2688-8|url-status=live|hdl=10852/83989|hdl-access=free}}</ref>