Please classify this man

[Eldritch]

Jukka Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey coach.

http://yle.fi/urheilu/tapahtumat/jaakiekon_mm_2008/kuvat/id102928-kuva1.jpg

http://www.ksml.fi/multimedia/dynamic/00008/4637713_jpg_8751c.jpg

http://static.iltalehti.fi/jaakiekko/6813975_jk.jpg

http://www.aamulehti.fi/mediagalleria/aamulehti/kiekkovideot/1251/11755-normal.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1060000/images/_1061054_jalonen150.jpg

[Absinthe]

He looks basically nordid/CM but I cannot say anything more precise.

[Vulpix]

I agree on CM.

[Eldritch]

Thanks. While I'm far from an expert, CM crossed my mind as well.

I saw happened to see his interview on television last night and was curious.

[Oresai]

I know next to nothing about classification :redface_002: but he`s almost the double of my dad when he was younger! :eek:
I also know quite a few men in the North East of Scotland who look very like him.
Given the lore and myths of `Finn folks` in the North of Scotland, I`m wondering how much, if any, Fin genetics has been shared with native Scots in times past.

[Eldritch]

I know next to nothing about classification :redface_002: but he`s almost the double of my dad when he was younger! :eek:
I also know quite a few men in the North East of Scotland who look very like him.
Given the lore and myths of `Finn folks` in the North of Scotland, I`m wondering how much, if any, Fin genetics has been shared with native Scots in times past.

Well, that look isn't really unique to Finland at all, afaIk. I think this guy wouldn't look much out of place just about anywhere in northern Europe.

But the stories about "Finn folks" you mentioned seem interesting. I don't want to go too far off topic, but perhaps you could tell me where I could find some information on them? Thanks. :)

[Oresai]

Certainly, here is a link to a local (to me :) ) site....


The root of the Finfolk myth


So, if the Finfolk and the selkie-folk were once one and the same, where did these tales originate?

For the answer, we need look to the north of Norway.

Norway was, and still is, home to two distinctly different people - the Norwegians, and the indigenous inhabitants of Northern Scandinavia, the Saami.

Referred to in the Old Norse sources as "finnar", the Saami were regarded as great sorcerers with the power to control the weather, travel great distances in magical trances and shapeshift - usually into the form of a sea animal or bear.


found here....http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/selkiefolk/origins/origin3.htm

[Alison]

I suck at these threads. I'm so used to living in a multicultural society that i can't differentiate except when someone is truly black or Asian.

In SA, I can usually judge who is British and who is Dutch, but there is a fine line. They have to open their mouths and speak. Then I know who is from SlaapStad, Durbs, Eastern Transvaal etc. :)

[Goswinus]

Baltid, with an ounce or more of Nordid.

Medium height of its face, an appearance of squareness and compression, the distance between the eyes and a certain wideness of the forehead in combination with thin lips and pinched leptorhine nose is a showcase of Baltid characteristics. Overall, the CM part is a little bit subdued, and the recession of the forehead is not quite in tune with the usual steepness seen in the Baltid race, but in itself not quite an argument to consider it cleary aberrant. It might hint though on a Nordid component.

The Nordid factor impels his traits to move in the same direction of CM+Nordid hybridisation as it occurs in Faelids: partial gracilisation and some facial leptomorphy or long-facedness.

[GeistFaust]

West Baltid with Nordid admixture.