Dark people in Northern Norway?

[drogin]

I guess this thread mainly intrests Norwegians, but anyway here it goes.

It seems to me that many people in Northern Norway, especially centered around Bodø, are quite dark.
Sometimes even with a quite distinctive look.

http://i58.tinypic.com/2z66utd.png
http://i58.tinypic.com/28l6qts.png
http://i57.tinypic.com/2j26lhz.png
http://i62.tinypic.com/30ji8tt.png

I believe that even I, which got ancestry from the islands right outside of Bodø, resemble them.
http://i62.tinypic.com/27xp2cy.jpg
http://i58.tinypic.com/2yx3qtl.jpg


Any thoughts? Classifications? Theories?

[Also]

The first one you posted is the darkest. Are people from the north actually darker than the ones form the south?

[Smeagol]

Palaeatlantid, and Lappoid influences...

[WOOHP]

Same with Sweden. People from the north are slightly darker on average than those from the south.

All though ofc very Northern European pigmentation wise.

[drogin]

The first one you posted is the darkest. Are people from the north actually darker than the ones form the south?
My impression is, yes.
But I haven't done a scientific survey ;)

About lappoid influence:
Then shoudn't people in theory be darker the further north and the closer to Finnmark you get?
My impression is that the people are the darkest around some miles south of Bodø, and along the coast and islands untill Harstad.

Probably just bullshit, but to me it seems like this area got roughly more dark haired people:
http://i61.tinypic.com/29bobyo.png

[Ctwentysevenj]

Maybe a long lost Sicilian tribe ended up in northern part of Scandinavia. :)

[Rædwald]

My impression is, yes.
But I haven't done a scientific survey ;)

About lappoid influence:
Then shoudn't people in theory be darker the further north and the closer to Finnmark you get?
My impression is that the people are the darkest around some miles south of Bodø, and along the coast and islands untill Harstad.

Probably just bullshit, but to me it seems like this area got roughly more dark haired people:
http://i61.tinypic.com/29bobyo.png

My favourite part of Norway, there was a lot of Viking activity around there perhaps some slaves or something mixed in with the local populous :rolleyes:

[Ctwentysevenj]

The most northern point of mainland Europe is located at the extreme northern part of Norway, North Cape.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cape,_Norway

[Anglojew]

http://www.theapricity.com/snpa/bilder/lundraces-map18.jpg

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?115481-Paleo-Atlantid-Norwegians

[Anglojew]

Also, I'd be surprised if the first guy (top photo) wasn't an immigrant.

[Anglojew]

Notice Deniker has the same racial classification for Wales and parts of Norway (etc). Today we'd use a different term than "Nord-Occidentale," I guess Atlanto-Med?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Deniker's_Races_de_l'Europe_(1899).jpg