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A genetic relationship, either as half-brothers or as an uncle and a nephew, has been established between skeletal remains of two men who died on opposite ends of the North Sea. Estimated to have been buried between 960 AD and 1020 AD, the two men from the same Viking family have finally been reunited at an exhibition at Denmark’s National Museum more than 1000 years later, after their DNA was found to be matching - and that too was by chance! While the first skeleton was discovered in England, presumably a part of the migration of Danish people who went to work as farmers in England in the 9th century, the second skeleton was found in central Denmark – 900