Bernd 06/07/2022 (Tue) 07:05:47 No.47810 del
>>47808
Indeed.
But ethnicity has several components. "Blood"/genes, language, culture (spiritual: beliefs, tales, legends, songs, etc; physical: items, objects, building, clothing, decoration etc.), lifestyle, all moving parts, they change. That's why identity is important, because those are the descendants who preserve that identity.

Besides how different were those who lived here before the Huns arrived first? According to the study in those times the locals preserved genes reaching back to the bronze age. But since the bronze age steppe people lived in the Carpathian basin more or less continuously (Scythians, Sarmatians and their variants, like the Iazig people whom were around in the times of Huns and had their own fights with the Romans, and Germanics too, and whom in the end settled on the Hungarian Great Plains in the times of the Hungarian Christian kingdom, and they are called Jász, and also assimilated into the Hungarians).

The case however isn't this simple and the study doesn't solve mysteries. There is another study from some years before, and I do cite it sometimes, here I did couple of times. That one found that the conquest times Hungarians had genetic ties to Huns (~45%), Scandis (~45%), Caucasians (~6%, not American Caucasian, but those who actually live in the region of the Caucasus mountains), and Slavs (~2%). The Scandinavians are more likely the Goths living north of the Black Sea, South Russian Steppes, and not the Varyags, because judging by the remains of their physical culture they were fully assimilated, so no fresh incorporation. So these two studies also have to be reconciled.