(January 30, 2014 at 7:26 pm)Chuck Wrote: Incidentally, recent genetic evidence suggests ancesters of Scandanavians were commonly quite dark skinned and black haired, although blue eyed, as recently as 8,000 years ago.
Modern Arabs or Northern Indians could have called an viking ancester from a mere 8,000 years ago "Darkie",
I read an article this week on the subject of dark skinned scandanavians this week. Here's a picture of Lars. A link to the article follows.
![[Image: Artists-impression-of-a-b-013.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=static.guim.co.uk%2Fsys-images%2FGuardian%2FPix%2Fpictures%2F2014%2F1%2F23%2F1390495581051%2FArtists-impression-of-a-b-013.jpg)
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/...-dna-tooth