Keltic Nordid

### Location:

The British Isles, Benelux, Western Germany, sometimes France, Iberia and other parts of Western Europe, North America

### Similar types:

North Atlantid, Anglo-Saxon, Hallstatt Nordid, Aisto Nordid, Trønder, North Pontid, Norid, Baskid, Atlantid, Dinarid, Litorid, Aran

### Body:

Medium height to rather tall, ectomorphic

### Hair color:

Ash blonde to blackish brown. Red hair frequent. Usually medium brown and dark blonde. Rarely golden to light blonde.

### Eye color:

Usually light (blue, grey, green or light-mixed). Sometimes mixed, brown or dark-mixed.

### Nasal shape:

Hyperleptorrhine, prominent, straight or wavy, sometimes convex

**Keltic Nordid** is a phenotype commonly found in the British Isles where it forms the basic Caucasoid type. It is also the major Caucasoid phenotypical element in the Low Countries particularly in the Flanders and Netherlands, where it’s more germanic, with a higher percentage than in the British Isles. It also exists to a lesser extent in France, and sporadically exists in all over Western Europe, especially in Western Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Also found in Basques. It has been historically associated with Celtic peoples. This type is a Nordid altered by slight Dinarid and Mediterranid admixture. European colonists spread this type to North America, Australasia, and South Africa, where it is usually found among people of British, Irish, and Dutch descent. Worldwide, it is the commonest Nordid type, as it has a higher numerical count in terms of population than any other Nordid type. Within the British Isles, there exists a type that combines features of Keltic Nordid with Atlanto-Mediterranid admixture known as the *North Atlantid*. It was the ancient Celtic (*Keltic*) and Frankish tribes of northwestern Europe who brought this type to the British isles and Low Countries.

## Origins:

The Keltic Nordid type probably shares its earliest formative history with the Hallstatt variety, or a similar proto-strain. The migratory existence associated with the ancestry of the Keltic type clearly involved the absorption of several non-Nordid strains, most importantly central European Dinarid (probably by association with the Bell-Beaker culture of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages). In this respect, one might say it is intermediate between the Hallstatt and Norid types. Additionally, the Keltic Nordid has mixed with Atlanto-Mediterranid, the latter of which is probably present at a low level in the Keltic Nordid population as a whole.

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## Physical traits:

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Pale to fair, often light, sometimes pinkish-pale skin. straight or wavy, dark blonde to brown, often red hair. Light, often blue, grey and green eyes. Sometimes mixed (hazel) eyes, less commonly brown eyes. Compressed temples and malars, usually not visible. Narrow jaw. Forehead sloping. Narrow face. Medium height to rather tall, ectomorph. Mesocephalic. Chamaecranic. Hyperleptorrhine, straight and prominent nose, sometimes convex. Lips thin. Sometimes "weak" jaw and small chin.

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A variant can be found in the Aran Islands in Ireland, with more golden and red hair and a slightly longer head, with a cephalic index of 77.8. It is also taller. This type is much more blue eyed and lighter pigmented than the typical Keltic type. This variant has developed over hundreds of years of genetic isolation.

In urban areas of the British Isles, there is a more Dinaroid-like variant with a more convex nose.

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## Estimates:

Belgium - 60% (most common in the north, in Flanders, of Ancient Belgae and Frankish tribal derivation)

The Netherlands - 50% ( Frankish tribal derivation)

Switzerland - 40% ( especially the north, west and central parts)

Australia - 35% (British Isles descendants)

England - 30% ( Principal phenotype of the British Isles, it was brought by Keltic-speaking tribes)

Ireland - 30%

Scotland - 30%

Wales - 30%

Canada - 25% (mainly from the British Isles descendants)

France- 20%

United States - 15-20% (mainly from Belgian, British, Dutch, Irish ancestry)

Austria - 15%

Germany - 6% ( especially the southwest in the Old Frankish country)

Argentina - 5% ( British Isles/ Netherlands ancestry)

Brazil - 3%

For notable examples see Keltic Nordid/Notable examples

## References:

https://www.theapricity.com/snpa/rg-keltic.htm

https://www.theapricity.com/snpa/rg-aran.htm

https://www.theapricity.com/snpa/troeplate29.htm

https://www.theapricity.com/snpa/chapter-VI3.htm