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[Macilrille]

Tretii, Russia, from "Hrus"; probably "Rower", Viking. The realms of Kiev and Novgorod which merged into Russi were founded by Vikings, mainly Swedish, but with some Danes and Norwegians participating as well.

Bobbin, you do know where Jutes, Angles and Saxons came from I assume, then the Viking invasions and Normans- themselves descended from Vikings (Robert Guiscard basically looks and acts the typical Viking warlord for example).

Of course, I have a bias- being a Danish Viking fighting re-enactor, but the various migrations and invasions seem likely to have left their mark (Icelandic DNA shows conclusively that the majority of men were Norwegians and many of the women Irish). As has other migrations and invasions since- uncluding the current one going from Middle-East to Europe, but Scandinavians have not been very active in those ;-)

It seems to me as if the continuing trend will make us all a merge with time and only fringe areas like Iceland, Finland, etc will be somewhat distinct.

The largest % of natural blondes in the world is in Finland (as can be seen on the map as well), a fringe area little touched by migrations by non-Scandinavians or succesfully invaded by non-Scandinavians. My guess is the largest % of non-natural blondes would be Hollywood ;-)