Comments by "Luis Aldamiz" (@LuisAldamiz) on "What Did Vikings Look Like and What Was Their Genetic (DNA) History?" video.

  1. They said the same of ancient Celts, they also said they loved to bleach their hair. 🤣 Statistically speaking the fairest of them all are the Frisians, which are not really Norse ("Vikings") although close enough maye. Unless you are into another variant of extreme paleness, which is red hair (and associated skin color, also ruddy but still quite pale in general), and then it is the Scots who win at the most carrot-like. But the one who wins at the most Trump-like character ever is some Galician peasant woman, made famous by Internet memes.
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  2. Everyone was stronger in the past... in theory, because of greater physical exertion, but then you look at drawings like the shaman of Trois-Fréres and he had a massive pot belly and very thin limbs... so maybe not so much.
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  3. Both my grandpas were blond and blue eyed. Neither was North European. The Italian one looked like a blond version of Atila with his partial epicanthic fold.
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  4.  @brawndothethirstmutilator9848  - Nope but from Veneto technically but ultimately Romagna. The Tarabini (later Tarabini-Castellani) are known to emerge to history in Ferrara, maybe Comacchio specifically, and serve as knights the Dukes of Ferrara and later Modena, mingling most notably (to my knowledged at least) with the Ponciani of Rome (Papal Guard commander married to Santa Francesca Romana and, generations later, the Italian Chess opening for fame). After Italian unification they migrated to Veneto with their already Austrianized overlords, they never had the guts to cross the Alps, they were Italian after all. So not Tuscany but definitely almost every land around it was involved in the making of my grandpa. I think it's just Indoeuropean legacy, which can be rather attributed to various waves from Italics to HRE Germans, all arriving from beyond the Alps and surely carrying some degree of Uralic ancestry all the way to Yamnaya and Khvalynsk cultures. In other cases I know from Spain, it's probably Native American admixture rather, they're not blond however, rather the opposite.
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