Nigel
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We are talking about specific genes here, not general maps of who are Celtic and who are Norsemen, the genes don't necessarily travel with those groups, they can come in later, or earlier than the migrations of those groups, and also get lost during migrations.Why Celts should appear to have "nordic genes"?? If they are CELTIC genes, why should they have "nordic"ones????.....
I'm suggesting that protection is given by a gene or group of genes that have travelled with those for blond hair. So although the haplogroup I1 map I linked to above is a fairly close match, it doesn't include the Celtic area of Turkey, while Turkey does have a lot of blond hair, that is where Boris Johnson is thought to have got his blond hair, within the green area on your map, and Turkey happens to currently have infected and death figures almost identical to Denmark. If I try to match it to red hair, it doesn't work, that is a completely different distribution, despite being a characteristic of the the Celts, and also the south Norwegian Vikings, although I see in Kamkar's cider image above, some Danes are also red headed. Genetics is very complicated, but death rate and Blond hair match up rather well, and better than your map of the celts!