I think it may have been movement determined by climate and warring factions over many years. I googled this which I found of interest ... https://www.google.com/search?q=scandinavian+and+berber+links&rlz=1C1CHBH_en-GBGB802GB802&oq=scandinavian+and+berber+links&aqs=chrome..69i57.26234j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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Sami girls - traditional dress
I had heard of the Sami people but had no idea exactly of how diverse they are and of who they actually are.
Yes... The article confirms the relationship.. Nothing to do with norsemen pillaging in Africa.. They both came from a community around the black sea 6 to 10 thousand years ago
from your link
The sequencing of entire human mitochondrial DNAs belonging to haplogroup U reveals that this clade arose
shortly after the “out of Africa” exit and rapidly radiated into numerous regionally distinct subclades. Intriguingly,
the Saami of Scandinavia and the Berbers of North Africa were found to share an extremely young branch, aged
merely ∼
9,000 years. This unexpected finding not only confirms that the Franco-Cantabrian refuge area of southwestern Europe was the source of late-glacial expansions of hunter-gatherers that repopulated northern Europe
after the Last Glacial Maximum but also reveals a direct maternal link between those European hunter-gatherer
populations and the Berbers.
as I have said....nothing to do with pillaging vikings...as some still want to believe..
The only relevance this has to the case is how important it is to look at the real evidence before jumping to conclusions