Joined Oct 2011
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MARE PACIFICVM
Greeings all,
I am new here on Historum, and I just have a few questions I hope some of you obviously well read folks can help me with.
I was having a group discussion with a Professor, and a few of my friends today and the conversation somehow turned into a genetics and bloodlines debate.
Noticing my 6'2" height, blonde hair and blue eyes, my Professor assumed that I was either Scandinavian or Germanic by descent.
When I told him that I was more or less 100% Irish, he said that almost all blonde haired blue-eyed Irish are the result of medieval Viking incursions onto the island and the couplings and rapes that followed; thereby introducing these traits into the gene pool.
He claims that before the Vikings came around, the Irish were mostly dark haired and dark eyed and actually shorter...apparently the Scandinavians also introduced the gene for greater height...
Anyhow, I had never heard anything like this before and I was wondering how credible and how likely you think this is? Should I start celebrating my Viking heritage?
I am new here on Historum, and I just have a few questions I hope some of you obviously well read folks can help me with.
I was having a group discussion with a Professor, and a few of my friends today and the conversation somehow turned into a genetics and bloodlines debate.
Noticing my 6'2" height, blonde hair and blue eyes, my Professor assumed that I was either Scandinavian or Germanic by descent.
When I told him that I was more or less 100% Irish, he said that almost all blonde haired blue-eyed Irish are the result of medieval Viking incursions onto the island and the couplings and rapes that followed; thereby introducing these traits into the gene pool.
He claims that before the Vikings came around, the Irish were mostly dark haired and dark eyed and actually shorter...apparently the Scandinavians also introduced the gene for greater height...
Anyhow, I had never heard anything like this before and I was wondering how credible and how likely you think this is? Should I start celebrating my Viking heritage?
