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Originally Posted by lene1949
Read heads are direct descendants of the Vikings...  |
No offense but no, they are not, at least not necessarily. Ancient writers including Homer, Tacitus and Herodotus all make mention of people with red hair centuries before the Vikings. Further, the highest concentration of people with Red Hair are found in Scotland and Ireland. If the Vikings were the sole reason other Europeans had red hair, we would expect that lands the Vikings came from should still have the highest concentration of red heads. Since the Scandinavian countries have a lower concentration of red heads than Ireland and Scotland, it would seem to suggest that Scandinavia is not the source of all red hair.
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Bill