In Roman and Greek writings the people of Northern Europe, the

>>2490994
"Tall, pale redheads" was just a greco-roman shorthand and stereotype for "snownigger barbarians"
Even the thracians were described as redheads.

>>2490994
The majority of writings on the Gallic and Gaelic peoples of Gaul and Ireland testify that they were tall, strong and red haired with large beards. As far as I'm aware they described the Germanics in a similar manner, but reiterated they had blonde hair. You have any sources?

Red was a synonym for gold

>>2490994
Red hair were basically absent from the roman gene pool, unlike blonde and brunette hair. That's why foreigners were identified like that. It's not like every single fucking barbarian had red hair.

>>2491029
Tacitus in his Germania said the Germanics all looked the same and had a distinct race separate from others and that they all had wild blue eyes and red hair.

>>2490994
>In Roman and Greek writings the people of Northern Europe, the Germanics and the Celts, were both described as being red haired.
Gonna need to see some evidence laddy

>>2491074
http://www.themythsandhistoryofredhair.co.uk/ancientquotes.html

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It actually holds true for celts tho

>>2491155
how in russia?

>>2491533

Scythians had red hair as well.

>>2490994
They also said that Germans only drank milk and ate meat. Take it with a grain of salt bud

>>2491155
I've seen maps showing 1-3% red hair going deeper into Italy than the far North.

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>>2491552
There's even this one that puts it as high as 6% for the whole country on average. I can speak from personal experience that red hair is quite common in Venetians though.

>>2491533
>>2491543
That particular part of Russia is inhabited by a Finnic tribe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udmurt_people

>>2491568
Highly doubt this. Red hair was not common in Italy, especially in ancient times.

Stereotypes lad

They called LITERALLY all Germans and Scots redheads