The "most Germanic" among Celtic nations

[Regnera]

I guess Scotland, but..apart from the welsh, Celtic peoples in general look pretty Germanic to me since well both Insular Celts and Germanic peoples derive much of their genetic ancestry from the Corded Ware culture of early Bronze age Europe which is why they're genetically very close to one another.

Sorry,I don't think so,a typical Celtic look is very different from a typical Germanic look in features.

[Grace O'Malley]

Sorry,I don't think so,a typical Celtic look is very different from a typical Germanic look in features.

Irish are Northwestern as are Scots, Welsh and so are the English. They would look closer to Dutch than German but it hasn't really anything to do with being Celtic or Germanic but more geographic just like genetics. You are closer to your neighbour for instance and even within the Isles there isn't a Celtic cluster. As the English are closer to the Irish and Scots than the Irish and Scots are to the Welsh and vice versa. The Insular Celts spoke Celtic languages but the genetics are more geographic based.

The Celtic question now just comes down to language so the most Celtic as far as retaining their language are the Welsh followed by the Irish. A tiny fraction of Scots speak Gaelic and the Cornish language died out a century ago but I know they are trying to revive it. So it would go Cornish, Scottish, Irish and then Welsh.

[Grace O'Malley]

Some more cool Cornish surnames I've found recently while searching GEDCOMs.

Trewhella
Huthnance
Curnow (didn't know this was Cornish)
Uren
Trezona
Craze
Bonetto
Carlyon
Tyack
Madron
Peneliggan
Odgers
Trevaskis
Truan
Trezise
Pentreath
Quintrell
Tregarthen

edit: Treloar is another that a footballer in Australia has.

Love the Cornish surnames.

[Grace O'Malley]

Sorry,I don't think so,a typical Celtic look is very different from a typical Germanic look in features.

Anyway is there really a Germanic look? I think these things are more on a continuum. Austrians don't look like Norwegians for example. I think these broad categories that people use aren't accurate and don't really make sense but that is my opinion based on logic and genetics. Difficult to get people out of this space though.

[Regnera]

Anyway is there really a Germanic look? I think these things are more on a continuum. Austrians don't look like Norwegians for example. I think these broad categories that people use aren't accurate and don't really make sense but that is my opinion based on logic and genetics. Difficult to get people out of this space though.

I think Hallstatt,Tronder and Dalofaelid are typical Germanic phenotype.

[Regnera]

double.

[Grace O'Malley]

I think Hallstatt,Tronder and Dalofaelid are typical Germanic phenotype.

But a lot of Germans aren't of that phenotype. It most likely has no genetic basis either because anthropology is pseudo-science. Granted there are certain types of looks more prevalent in certain countries but if you look at something like Atlantid people that they classify this as have no genetic relationship whatsoever and you could have a brother who is an Atlantid and another brother who is Tronder. And what exactly is a Celtic look? Is it Irish who most likely have very little continental Celtic genetics.

Anyway it's all interesting to discuss.