ABSTRACT
I am an immigrant who, through no choice of my own, moved to Canada, grew up here, and still live here. I come from a long line of immigrants, hailing from Britain. Through DNA testing, I have recently learned I’m not purely Celt as previously thought. I hold a significant portion of Scandinavian genes, the imprint of a female Viking immigrant who left her cold lands in search of soil to farm and settle. The other half of my genes are Celt, as expected, roots in Britain, native Britons some might say, though they too are thought to have immigrated to the green isle some 10,000 years ago from the Iberian Peninsula.
