Classify French rock climber Sébastien Gottiniaux

[Willefroy]

From Normandy, with apparently Northern French surname.

https://i.imgur.com/alzOyB3.jpg
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[Catarinense1998]

Keltic-Nordid.Looks Dutch to me.

[Columella]

Nordic.

[Willefroy]

I agree that he looks Dutch. Where else would he pass?

[Catarinense1998]

I agree that he looks Dutch. Where else would he pass?

British Isles, Netherlands, Germany.

[Aren]

Werid he looks almost identical to one of my High School teachers.

[cyberlorian]

Nordid.

[Willefroy]

Werid he looks almost identical to one of my High School teachers.

Swedish teacher I guess. A friend told me that Gottiniaux looked Scandinavian, but I couldn't tell as I don't know Scandinavian phenotypes very well. Your anedcote might confirm his claims.

[The Blade]

Very Keltic Nordid looking.

[Willefroy]

Is Keltic Nordid really associated to Celtic people, or is it just an outdated denomination?

[Columella]

Is Keltic Nordid really associated to Celtic people, or is it just an outdated denomination?

It’s associated mainly with a specific British-Irish sub type. It probably was there before the Keltic invasions.
This guy is not close to Coon’s Keltic butvrather to his Osterdhal-Halstatt.

[Willefroy]

Ok, because he looks Germanic to my eyes. Those types are only found in Germanic influenced regions in France, especially North and Normandy.

[Ouistreham]

Swedish teacher I guess. A friend told me that Gottiniaux looked Scandinavian, but I couldn't tell as I don't know Scandinavian phenotypes very well. Your anedcote might confirm his claims.
I know Scandinavia very well, and I swear he looks much more Nordid that the average Norwegian.


Keltic-Nordid.Looks Dutch to me.
Not Dutch at all!
"Keltic Nordid" is a convenient blanket denomination for specifically British types that mix Mediterranean and Nordic features, generally associated with a pseudo-Dinarid profile.
Sebastien Gottiniaux doesn't enter that fishy classification.

[Xacal]

Keltic Nordid

[Willefroy]

Kevin Cosner, Jean Rochefort and Edward Norton have been classified as Keltic Nordids. He doesn't look like them at all. So what makes you say that he is Keltic Nordid?

Otherwise I think he passes Netherland easily, although he would perhaps fit better in Scandinavia indeed.

I really wonder how such phenotypes have remained in France through the centuries, given that historians and archeologists claim that Germanic then Norse settlers were a tiny minority among what they call the "gracile" or "robust" "Mediterranean gallo-roman autochtons of Northern Gaul".

[Odin]

Kelto-Saxon.

[Willefroy]

Well, Saxons settled in Normandy and Pas de Calais.

[Willefroy]

Bump

[Willefroy]

bump

[Newsboy]

Passes in British Isles, Benelux, Germany, and Scandinavia no problems.

[Willefroy]

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