'Dark' Nordics

[Hamlet VI]

There are many people (especially in Western Europe) who are not blue eyed and blond, or even fair skinned, but still distinctly Nordic. Examples:

Tony Blair (Scottish)

<img src=http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38193000/jpg/_38193582_tony_blair_pa_150.jpg>

Michael Vartan (half Norman, half British)

<img src=http://www.thespiannet.com/actors/V/vartan_michael/vartan1.jpg>

Ben Affleck (I believe of Irish descent, not 100% sure)

<img src=http://www.manmademultimedia.com/magazine/news/ent/intheaters/april2002/changing_lanes.jpgs/ben_affleck.jpg>

George W Bush (yes, he looks like a chimp, but I'm relatively sure that he has all the measurements of a typical Keltic Nordic)

<img src=http://www.bpfrommer.com/new_images_6/President%20George%20W.%20Bush.jpg>

Prince of Wales (very British looking, and actually quite similiar in appearance to Mr Bush)

<img src=http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk/news-reports/press-releases/archive/2001/LNW-2001/images/Prince%20Charles.gif>

[GreenHeart]

His nose is the apish thing about him. He looks nordic if you take everything above the nose.

I want to add to the list of dark nordics. Blond and blue aren't always equal to nordic or even nordish.

Jimmy Stewart (Hallstatt) USA


Kari Rueslåtten (Tronder) Norway


Actually I searched more and she doesn't have dark hair. Look at her hair....


Rachel Hunter has naturally dark hair.



Another tronder with naturally dark hair.


Gary Cooper (Tronder)


Colm Meaney (Brünn) Ireland

[GreenHeart]

Robert Urich, (Borreby)



Mel Gibson (keltic)


High Grant (keltic)


Jean-Claud van Damme (netherlands) keltic


Deborah Kerr (Anglo-saxon)


Stewart Granger




Stephan Collins (Hallstatt)


Charles Lindburgh (Hallstatt)

[GreenHeart]

I've got another one for you. Maureen O'Hara. Irish Brünn.

[Glenlivet]

I agree, because the right method is to look at head shape, morphology and body type first and pigmentation being of secondary importance.

Yet all those have fair skin, and that is more important. I would say eye and then at last hair colour comes in order of importance.

What makes them look "West European" is probably the Mediterranean part, which give the facial prognathism and an aristomorphic appearance.

Ben Affleck is partly Mediterranean (of Insular type)
http://images.forbes.com/images/2001...ck_200x256.jpg

Michael Vartan is more Nordic (could be Trönder):
http://www.dearsally.org/alias/image...erieszap02.jpg
http://images.usatoday.com/life/gall...ith-vartan.jpg
http://www.htautographs.com/celebrit...s/v/vartan.JPG
http://www.screensavershot.com/persons2/mvartan.jpg

Bush is not so Nordic. The face and nose (slightly depressed) is too wide.

Prince Charles of Wales is considered to be one of the most ugly men alive. He is a North-Atlantid.





[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hamlet VI
[B]There are many people (especially in Western Europe) who are not blue eyed and blond, or even fair skinned, but still distinctly Nordic. Examples:

[Glenlivet]

Jean Claude Van Damme (birth name Van Varenberg)
was born in Brussels, Belgium. He is from Flanders.


[QUOTE]Originally posted by NordicPower88

Jean-Claud van Damme (netherlands) keltic

[GreenHeart]

Heh, SNPA says he's from Netherlands. Personally I have no idea about movie stars I hardly ever see their movies.

[Hamlet VI]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by volksdeutsche
[B]
Michael Vartan is more Nordic (could be Trönder):
http://www.dearsally.org/alias/image...erieszap02.jpg
http://images.usatoday.com/life/gall...ith-vartan.jpg
http://www.htautographs.com/celebrit...s/v/vartan.JPG
http://www.screensavershot.com/persons2/mvartan.jpg

Hmm, if he's a Tronder I guess that shows there is some Viking influence in northern France.

[Rurik]

Originally posted by NordicPower88

Jean-Claud van Damme (netherlands) keltic

I'm sorry, but Jean-Claude van Damme is not Nordic, he's Alpine. Look at him.

[Glenlivet]

Perhaps so, his mother is an American, and I don't know her ancestry. But Normandy is special, you're right.




[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hamlet VI
[B]

Originally posted by volksdeutsche

Michael Vartan is more Nordic (could be Trönder):
http://www.dearsally.org/alias/image...erieszap02.jpg
http://images.usatoday.com/life/gall...ith-vartan.jpg
http://www.htautographs.com/celebrit...s/v/vartan.JPG
http://www.screensavershot.com/persons2/mvartan.jpg

Hmm, if he's a Tronder I guess that shows there is some Viking influence in northern France.