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Viking was a job, not an ethnicity. Those people did settle and breed in those areas so it's safe to say you're probably related to some of them.
I know I'm related I'm just looking for more information, anything I can find to possibly narrow down and dig deeper. maybe locations, clans, colors, flags, what types of settlements, (types of Vikings) etc. just more info because I don't know much about my ancestors and no one has ever told me
Nobody has that information. There weren't records during Viking times and the nature of Vikings was that they invaded and settled all around Northwest Europe and interbred with people.
But given how long ago it was, mathematically speaking you are probably descended from everyone back then.
Why not find out your more recent genealogy, from the last few hundred years? Might be more interesting and actually possible due to censuses and birth and marriage certificates.
Your ancestors are scottish/english and at some point in the last 1000 years a couple of them had relations with Scandinavians.
Many nordic people settled in both England and Scotland long after the viking age.
I know my ancestry came from Ireland, traced it back to Norway. But that’s all I got. I have English as well.
Do some genealogy.
I can’t wait to find out myself.
A company saying you have X amount of geographically poorly defined DNA won't tell much. Look into genealogy to see if you can find where the Danish/Swedish on this list is from. Read up on the family history, farms they were from, region they were from, local history etc. Don't skip right to the viking age, learn the history before and after.
Does it really matters?
He’s asking so it matters to them.
I didn't ask why it matters to them, or who it matters to, I asked if it really matters
What does it matter to you?
yeah, it does matter I would like to have the knowledge and possibly not lose my history so one day I can tell my kids that their great great great great great grandfather was a ( insert info here ) Viking. Also, it's my bloodline. It is a cool thing to study, and it's more I would like to know the history and better my knowledge ( its called learning ) people do that. IDC if my bloodline was some slave raped by a Viking and then that slave baby brutally murdered a whole village with an axe ( which I wish I could find that much detail) but, it is history that should not be forgotten. Ancestry stops at the 1700s and I'd like to know more for my own educational reasons.
Does your opinion, whether it matters, matter?
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to Me, to me
to me
probably not much since you're only 46% nordic/germanic