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The Swedish anthropologist Bertil Lundman introduced the term "Nordid" to describe the Nordic race in his book The Races and Peoples of Europe (1977) as: "The Nordid race is light-eyed, mostly rather light-haired, low-skulled and long-skulled (dolichocephalic), tall and slender, with more or less narrow face and narrow nose, and low frequency ...
Faroese people or Faroe Islanders (Faroese: føroyingar; Danish: færinger) are an ethnic group native to the Faroe Islands. [4] The Faroese are of mixed Norse and Gaelic origins. [ 5 ] About 21,000 Faroese live in neighbouring countries, particularly in Denmark , Iceland and Norway .
A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1405137386. Merriam-Webster, Inc (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. ISBN 978-0877790426. Moberg, Vilhelm (1972). History of the Swedish people: from prehistory to the Renaissance. Pantheon. ISBN 978-0394481920.
From 1913 to 1920, the Swedish race-segregation political movement created a race-based biological institute that collected research material from living people and graves. Throughout history, Swedish settlers were encouraged to move to the northern regions through incentives such as land and water rights, tax allowances, and military exemptions.
Monument over Stor-Stina at Brännäs in Malå. Kristina Katarina "Stina Kajsa" Larsdotter (19 January 1819, in Brännäs, Malå – 27 May 1854), known as Långa lappflickan (The Tall Laponia Girl), The Lapland Giantess, and Stor-Stina (Big Stina), was a Sámi woman from Sweden, who aroused great attention among her contemporaries because of her height.
The Norwegian language, with its two official standard forms, more specifically Bokmål and Nynorsk, is part of the larger Scandinavian dialect continuum of generally mutually intelligible languages in Scandinavia. Norwegian people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in the United States, Canada, Australia ...
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Throughout the Norse lands, people lived in longhouses (langhús), which were typically 5 to 7 meters (16 to 23 ft) wide and anywhere from 15 to 75 meters (49 to 246 ft) long, depending on the wealth and social position of the owner. In much of the Norse region, the longhouses were built around wooden frames on simple stone footings.