DNA reveals Vikings who invaded Britain were actually returning to their homeland

The Vikings were, among other things, Nordic raiders, plunderers and slaughterers intent on conquering England.

They also may have been a tad homesick.

There’s long been a belief that the English are descended from Anglo-Saxons, who scuffled with Roman gladiators in the fourth century.

And after the first binge-drinking Danish Vikings got to Britain in the eighth century, the DNA of these...