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[@DegenerateThree] A common misconception about the Old Norse people, funnily enough, is that they were all white. DNA evidence suggests that they had a great deal of ethnic diversity, with ancestry from hunter-gatherers and farmers from across the Eurasian steppe in addition to the Nordic regions. [url=https://www.norwegianamerican.com/the-vikings-were-not-who-you-thought-they-were/]This article[/url] goes into a bit more detail about it, if you want to take a look at it for ideas to refine your CS.
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I find this quite interesting as that specific news article doesn’t say that the Norse weren’t white, just that they weren’t primarily or solely [i]Scandinavian[/i]. They had a genetic diversity that spanned across Europe, which has a white skin tone. If you look into any human skin adaption study, you will see that human skin color heavily correlates with levels of UV radiation. Areas inhabited by humans with higher levels of UV radiation (i.e near the equator) all had darker, more melanin rich skin. Europe in any one of these maps fall into the lighter skin regions.

I would certainly like to read peer reviewed journal articles that show otherwise.