Mediterranean Blue
Where do the English get blond hair and blue eyes?
A fairly random question maybe! I was having a chat with a friend and we could not agree on where to get the English people with blond hair and blue eyes? It was the Romans? Scandinavian? Or another completely different culture? Originally think that the Romans ... but then began to question this as the Mediterranean people especially Italians are known for having dark hair, dark eyes and olive skin! anyone shed some light on this? Thank you!
Well, Firstly, many many English people do not have blond hair and blue eyes! OK: a little information on the history of Britain. When the Romans came to Britain, they found many tribes of people who speak a Celtic language: throughout what is now Wales, England and southern Scotland, this was Brythonic - the ancestor of Welsh, Cornish and Breton. Elsewhere in Scotland, there were also speakers from picta, a language that can or have not been Celtic. Scottish Gaelic was in Ireland for 400. Now, the Romans themselves were Mediterranean, but many of its troops from the conquered territories, often mercenaries - many of them came from the Germanic tribes. This is the first and obvious source: Germans soldiers in the Roman army. Then, when the Romans abandoned, the solution of the Germanic invasion and risen sharply as Angles, Saxons and Jutes crossed the continental Europe. They brought in English in Britain Brythonic and eventually came to be restricted to Wales and Cornwall. Once again, these immigrants probably brought a little blond with them. Then, of course, in the next century, the Vikings, with blond and red hair, came in reasonably high numbers. So: this is the orthodox view. The blond hair and blue eyes were taken to eastern Britain by the Germanic people, first in the Roman army after the Germanic invasions, then in the Viking invasions. And certainly the typical Welsh - the descendant of the native British from this point of view - is still considered to be dark. But there are problems: the indigenous what is now England were not all dead or displaced (and perhaps not all that much at all): there should be lots of "native blood" is in England. Secondly, we know almost nothing about the ethnic makeup of Britain before the Romans, but during this time was his Celtic language - but the language is not everything they say much about ethnicity (see how many Indians speak English). And we know with certainty of a place-name evidence of Celtic languages that are not about of Britain, although possibly extinct by Roman times. Third, when Caesar said that the natives in the west of Britain were dark while in the East were blond (though there may have been some discoloration of the hair). Some speculate that Germanic settlements have already been before the Romans. As Therefore: where does that leave us? Basically, a part of English blond Germanic stems from the settlement during and after the Roman era, but most is probably higher, and its origin uncertain.
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