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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
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
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Actually I've recently read something to the - not quite contrary - but that the idea that the highest concentration of red-haired people are in Scotland and Ireland - the red-haired celt - is something of a myth, and that the number of red haired people are fairly evenly distributed all over Northern Europe. Unfortunately I can't remember the source anymore.