Denmark and Norway have historically been united against Sweden, with Denmark serving as an arch-enemy since the early Middle Ages; numerous wars were fought against the Danes. Industrialists and merchants arrived from the Netherlands and Germany via the Hanseatic League, primarily interested in Sweden's natural resources. German merchants were concentrated mainly in Stockholm and the Bergslagen region, where the mines were located. The Dutchman De Geer led a major influx of skilled Walloon ironworkers capable of forging iron and constructing blast furnaces for smelting. The forests provided fuel for charcoal stacks and the charcoal production needed for the ironworks. Skilled workers also arrived from Finland, capable of practicing slash-and-burn agriculture and supplying timber to coastal sawmills. Genetic traits from these groups spread throughout the population as Sweden industrialized. As an interesting aside, many people also arrived in Gothenburg from England and Scotland, which explains the prevalence of English names such as Osborn, Glenn, Steve, Stark, Grant, and Morgan. The Walloons brought with them French surnames like Anjou, Bayard, Bedoire, Bouvin, and Pousette; the Germans introduced names such as Becker, Müller, Schmidt, Schneider, Schultz, and Zimmerman; and the Dutch contributed names like Appelbom, Leyonkrona, De Besche, De Geer, and Cruys. Finland brought Swedish names that were translated into Finnish such as Södergård Etelätalo, Nygård Uusitalo, the Finnish Swedes who lived in Swedish-speaking regions kept their Swedish names as Finland is bilingual.

very interesting. I live in the USA state of Minnesota. I was told my fathers parents were all Swedish and spoke Swedish but born in Finland. I did a DNA test for fun. Turns out I am half Finish lol. Almost no Swedish. My Grandparents came from Kronoby Ostrobothnia.

My father's paternal grandfather, Anders Svensson, immigrated to the USA in 1896, settling in central Utah. He was from Malmo, directly across from Copenhagen.  My father's maternal grandfather Karl Thomsen was born in Copenhagen..In both their ancestral lines, there are people from the other country who married in, Swedish wives to Danes and Danish wives to Swedes. Today there is a bridge across the strait between the cities. My mother was Japanese, who married my father during the postwar Occupation.  There are now over a hundred Swenson descendants of my patents, most with Japanese given names.

My wife's father descended from German immigrants in Iowa, while her mother's ancestors were Norwegians who arrived in Utah in 1860 after pulling hand carts across Nebraska and Wyoming. Our 16 grandchildren have varying visual appearance mixing Japanese and northwest European characteristics.

59,2% central Sweden- 21,5% Finland 7,3% Denmark - 3,9% Baltic 3,8% Norway- 2,2% Germanic- 1,1% Eastern Europe - 1% GB - some USA

Seems like we forgett that further back in history before medivial time before viking age, waterways was a safer way to travel than big areas of forrests, people arround Gulf of Bothnia had connections over the water between Northern Swedish Coastline And the Northern Finland Coastline.

Living in Hogsby Småland, many was leaving to America from here. One person leave before WWII and was working in Chicago as carpenter for the big mafiaboss. He was in Philipines during the war. He was fast wit his gun so after the war he went back here to Sweden in 1967.. Charles Nelson. He was a verry kind person, he loved to hunt elgs, /mooses. Memory will never dissapear.

I got 94% Scandinavian and 6% Finn on the DNA test.
Scandinavian wasn't separated as Swedish, Norwegian, Danish.

Half off Trøndelag have much swede in blood. I know my grand, grand, grand, grand, grandpa was a swede. He come with a family off 13 child who immigrated Norway and later USA. Trøndelag also was longest under Swede border then rest off Norway.

This was just the latest generations. 😅 My grandfather on the mothers side had ancestors who got land in Finland over 500 years ago. They mixed up with Finnish people like my grandmother. After my mother was born, they moved to Sweden. My father's father came from the middle of Sweden, and his mother came from Norway. 😂 And the older ancestry would be more interesting because many come here from different places in Europe and some come from Siberia. Remember, that was ice here long ago. 😅

What about the Baltic countries, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia? They were once part of the Swedish empire. 🇸🇪

❤❤❤From Denmark

True but over all in a larger picture Germany is the closest Evan closer than Norway. Norway have their own more Viking DNA.

I am from the south of Sweden in Blekinge. I am 85%Scandinavian, 5% Finnish,5% Northwestern europe and 5% baltik/belarus/ukrain

Close but not really accurate.
The southern parts of Sweden was Denmark this is their place of origin.
Large parts of western Sweden used to be Norway.
And the Swedish/Finnish border have moved a couple of times.
Finland belonged to Sweden longer than Southern Sweden have been Swedish.
There are also a long history with Russia that where founded by Vikings from Sweden.
And lots of history with Estonia and Latvia .
So not really that simple.
Then Sweden had a large German, Belgian and vallonian immigration to the Iron Works Among other things.
And least but not last the old sagas about the different tribes of Sweden.
The Goths/geats who fought the svear over the power of Sweden that the svear won hence the name.
You had the herulii, the vends / vandals.
The Burgundians. The skifinns. The same /sameic . And more.
I myself is a Swede born in west of Sweden but my ancestors are complicated.
On my mother's side her mother came from Scania and eastern Sweden/ vallonian. And her father came from Western Sweden and South eastern.
And my father's father came from way up north with Swedish,Finnish, same and his mother was from Western Sweden.
So I guess that makes me a mutt related to almost all our neighbours.

Sweden is a colonial power. Through wars, it has won large parts of Norway and all of southern Sweden from Denmark. The South  have been Danish for much longer than they have been Swedish. But what is Swedish DNA? Malmö will soon be neither Danish nor Swedish.

I have Denmark 2% Norway  2% and German 16.3 I figured Norway but I will take Denmark as well✌️❤️

The only difference is that Finland has got more ppl with blue eyes and blond hair. Finns are the blondiest ppl in the world. Watch the statistics "Which country has the most blondies?"

Stop your nonsense.  Crossing borders? There were no borders. We were one nation with different lords. Finland is not part of Scandinavia.

The answer is - the Russians!😊