Nordic race
If "Völkisch" writers used terms like "Nordische Rasse" ("Nordic race") and "Germanentum" ("Germanic peoples"), their concept of "Volk" could, however, also be more flexible, and understood as a "Gemeinsame Sprache" ("common language"), or as an "Ausdruck einer Landschaftsseele" ("expression of a landscape's soul"), in the words of geographer Ewald Banse.