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“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”R.C.
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“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”
I get the impression they were mostly bigger folk.Which is supposedly true. Roman source speak of Northern barbarians as being taller by a head. Which might have to do with a better nutrition (more fish and meat, and less grains and vegetables).
... and yes, I'm a redhead tooAccording to South Park, readheads have no soul ...
The "blondness" is an adaption to the northern latitudes with less sunlightBut on what planet? LOL.
any more than brown skin men and women left in Sweden for the same duration will turn into ABBA.RC
They also found evidence that there was significant gene flow into Scandinavia from the British Isles, Southern Europe, and Asia before and during the Viking Age, which further undermines the image of the Vikings as 'pure' Scandinavians.Significant ? How many, actually ? As slaves perhaps ?
Another discovery that runs counter to the standard image of the Vikings is that many had brown hair, not blonde hair.Again, how many ? One of three ? One of thousand ?
Also, it is quite well known that the Norseman raiders were quite fond of taking women as spoilsWhat, there were no sexy, ovulating, nympho temptresses in the whole of Northern Europe?
What, there were no sexy, ovulating, nympho temptresses in the whole of Northern Europe?RC
That must have been a bit grim.
Ladies are a God given thing that make this existence worthwhile.When they can be made to shut up, and you are able to deter their drive to rule you. Not joking.
The Victorians really screwed up history for a good century.Yeah, they did. They made it up as they went along....[Link]
Given certain conditions , a sample size of 442 out of hundreds of thousands is sufficiently large to allow the drawing of pretty darn good conclusions.Mathematically, if a random distribution over the whole set is given. This is not the case with populations, especially sparse populated areas like Scandinavia.
Let's start by the obvious : Viking was not a ethnicity. It was one that did Vikingr, a term that means something like "doing a merchant run" ( peacefully or not ... the term did not distinguish between both ) . Being surprised to see a Scottish viking is akin to be surprised to see a Scottish plumber :/
Also, it is quite well known that the Norseman raiders were quite fond of taking women as spoils ( just read how the colonisers of Iceland got their wifes ... it involves some ...Vikingr on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland :/ ). Knowing this, no prizes will be given to anyone that guesses how that influx of non-Scandinavian genes got there at the times of the raids
In the end , this one is a mix of stating the obvious and of trying to justify some ... diversification we see being forced in some Scandinavian countries nowadays. If it already happened why care if it happens nowadays ?