Quote Originally Posted by moonburn View Post
it´s almost as absurd as calling bayern part of deutschland they should be called upper austria :\
Austria is only a part of Germany where they speak a funny dialect. Similarly, the Czech want to hide the fact that they're actually Germans by speaking an obscure language.


anyway i was just making a remark i noticed the hairknot but the fact that today germans have like everyone else intermingled with others and no longer have per se those phisical caractheristics doesn´t mean that in the past such "interminglings" where normal and to find someone wich "southern" caractheristics in a sweboz warband seems wierd to me also tux what is it written in that modern axe :?
Intermingling is as old as humanity itself. Some basic traits and features do exist though and have probably existed since Homo sapiens first settled this part of the world. For example, Northern Germans are not only fairer (by colour, I mean) on average than Southerners, but also tend to have different faces. Southern Germans have a greater variety of colours ranging from light blonde to black-haired types, even darker skin. They can resemble pretty much any ethnic group from Scandinavia to Spain to Afghanistan. By contrast, most Northerners look a lot like Scandinavians. I'm fairly certain that these characteristics, though perhaps a little less extreme back in EB's timeframe, predate the modern age.
Also, Schwarzenegger IMO displays a typical look of Alpine/Southern German types.