Return of the white wolf

South Sweden was Germanic throughout the Iron Age. Then, AD 450-510, it got invaded - from central European ancestry. The main fort - "Borg" - involved here was Sandby, which after a massacre was left to ruin.

In order to get there, a central European would have to have pushed through what's now Pomerania. Some today argue that a language was there once, separating Prussia from whatever was spoken in Germany at that time - which, duh, was German. I don't know if that language was still around however.

Another thought - and if I may say, a better thought - is that here we are dealing with ex-Huns. Etzel was murdered at the beginning of this timeframe. Better known to Latins as "Attila", his subjects were not Huns (last I heard the Huns were being claimed for the Yenisey). Attila's fighting class were Goths; their peasantry at this time Latinised Dacians and Pannonians. Germans call them Wallacians; they now call themselves Romanians.

Anyway the Gepids et al. weren't in wonderful position to do more invasions south or west. Other Germans were already there and didn't want the Huns' "traitors". The Roman Empire in Constantinople, now laser-focused on the Balkans, was not a nut as could be cracked. From the East whence the Huns, the Avars were coming, uniting the Slavs.

Up north however - what was there? Maybe not the riches of Byzantium; but the Baltic could be fished and amber could be sold to the far side of Denmark. Recall that the Franks were building a viable kingdom, not as grand as Rome, but not too much worse than the Gaulish province had been under, oh, its Constantine III.

Against this "return" the Danes, for their own part, put up a fence, the Danevirke.

At any rate, having taken south Sweden, they'll enter Anglosaxon legend as "Geats". Some genetics hint at that too. Note Peter Heather's name on this one.

Failed sarcasm

In a time when the online Right is touting how well we are doing controlling inbound migration, Prof. Glenn Reynolds first says other countries have the problem too and, second, that DEMOCRATS POUNCE. And third he links the the wrong thing; the actual article is hither.

Yes, Glenn; this is the fault of the MAHA Moms. And you're standing in the way of the brush.

Don't put your finger on the button

The meme goin'round X is the red button or the blue button. I'll just c/p from Brave AI:

• Blue Button: The cooperative choice. If >50% of people press blue, everyone survives. If <50% press blue, blue-pressers die and red-pressers live.
• Red Button: The safe choice. If >50% press blue, everyone survives. If <50% press blue, red-pressers survive and blue-pressers die. If everyone presses red, everyone survives.

The Christian must push blue. To him is promised the next world.

I wonder however if we are ethically allowed to push neither. Since we didn't push blue, we don't die. Since we didn't push red, we aren't culpable for the decision of blue-i-cide. This is also, note, the Moldbug-approved option of refusal to indulge in The Sport Of The Elected.

Whoever forces this on me could of course threaten to kill me. Or err'body, which to a solipsist means the same. But feh. I didn't do it. That's on the jerkoff who composed this sick game.

Second order effects

It's been noted that African - and Italian - populations have genetic defences against the Malaria parasite. Plural: the famous one is sickle-cell, but older mutations exist. These do not lead to the anaemia. Why haven't they led to the anaemia?

Article here has a suggestion: some genetic tweaks are not allergenic, but antiallergenic.

To me this suggests a high-Eurasian pathway similar to the Saharan pathway. People move to new environments. Those environments have not mutually adapted with the newcomers. The environment resists. The newcomers mostly die - but not all. If going home is more hazardous than toughing it out, the survivors will tough it out. Those will stay - but weaker. Weaker relative to their relatives back home; but it's not like those relatives are going to follow them into the swamp, they're not idiots.

- until the body gets countermeasures. Fast-forward thousands of years. Some in the next generation innaswamp are no longer so weak. They got the original antimalarial genes, and new genes to work around all the problems the original genes had raised.

The zutt claim their own

David Wilcock passed away on the day self-destruction often occurs, the 20th. The county - Boulder, blameless here - released a few statements culminating in the family statement. That's the statement to take meaning from the man's life.

That meaning was negative.

David was born with a blessing and a curse, as the Deuteronomist says. The Wilcock family indulged the curse. Wilcock grew up preferring the "spiritual" - matters which cannot be verified, against the real, which can.

CS Lewis would have it that the demons prefer we focus on the real and disdain the spiritual. I dispute this. Demons by definition, if they exist, are spiritual. As partakers in human company, demons prefer we focus on the demonic - to join them. Wilcock could have sought help. Instead he sought company in his delusions.

To sum up, I implore my readers to seek better company.

BACKDATE 4/25

Dormant

Article here on Methana. That's a volcano on the Thera chain. The study runs from before even Neanders got there 700kBC, down to the early-third-century-BC eruption Strabo noted.

You'd think we could date Strabo's eruption more securely but, the paper doesn't.

The worry in that paper is a dormant epoch 280-170kBC, preEemian/MIS5e. The underbelly was producing zircons - raising them up from the depths, anyway. But there/then was no eruption. This suggests churn under a volcano that looks as frozen as Olympus over on Mars but... isn't.

People around Rainier and Hood, take note.

BACKDATE 4/30 like it matters.

Cro-Stajnia

I think the Stajnia cave is pronounced sty-nia. Whatever the Neanders called it, they were there. The article focuses on their women (or mothers), by mitochondrial DNA.

The chart in this article is ... pretty bad, to be supplemented with this one. The two charts don't really overlap inasmuch as our topic handles a group clustering with Thorin and a couple Mesmaskaya (1 and 3; plus, lately Peshturina 3). The earlier paper was handing Goyet, primarily, products of the great MIS 3 replacement.

The Stajnia timespan is done by molecular branch shortening rather than radiocarbon or something, anyway difficult so long back. That points earlier, MIS 5 from the fabled Eemian on. Sadly we're not able to bring the Timshemet; their DNA hasn't been recovered.