Originally Posted by
Valmont
"The Gauls are described as tall and of great physical strength, with a fair skin and blonde hair, which they often reddened by artificial means. Men of rank and of authority wore the hair andbeard long. The more barbarous tribes gave themselves a terrible aspect by painting hideous devices on their half-naked bodies. Their voices were rough and harsh, their words few, and their language obscure and figurative. Disparaging others, boastful of themselves, arrogant, fond of idleness, they were very quarrelsome and always ready to fight, to relieve the monotony of their existence, if for no other reason. They were, however, high-spirited and brave to utter recklessness and contempt for death."
Caesar's description of the Gauls doesn't seem so Mediterranean to me. I remember reading that some of the Gaulish and Germanic slaves had their heads shaved so that the Greeks and Romans could make blonde wigs.