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female immigration into the east from continental Europe, something which is undetectable in the
west and north. How about the men? Here we do see a huge difference, even in the distribution of
the clans, the crudest of indicators. Oisin’s clan is down to only 51 per cent in East Anglia. The
proportions increase as you travel west to Wales and north to Scotland. Where Oisin declines,
Wodan increases and it reaches its highest proportions in the whole of the Isles in East Anglia,
where Oisin is lowest. But there are virtually no Sigurds in East Anglia. However, there are plenty
of Sigurds in the north of England, where they amount to 7 per cent of the total, which is a third of
the Shetland total. In the south of England and in the Mercian territory of central England there are
plenty of Wodans, and Sigurds too. The Appendix gives the figures.
The difference between the eastern regions and the rest intensifies when we look at the Y-
chromosome diversity, which is much higher in the east, indicating a longer settlement if you
follow the traditional way of interpreting genetic diversity. Diversity is much higher in the Wodan
clan than in Oisin wherever you care to look.
By now there are so many threads in the air, so many facts to digest. And I have only been able
to give you a tiny fraction of the detail. For every fact I have shown you, I have a hundred more in
reserve. It has been a long tour, in time as well as in space. We have travelled to every corner of
the Isles. At each step we have moved closer to an answer and now the time has arrived to distil
the essence of our discoveries and draw our conclusions.