This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...to be broad, and with the subsequent arrival from the south of a fairer race with long heads, whose type assumed preponderance. There seems little reason to suppose there has been any subsequent increase of breadth except to the small extent which incorporation of primitive strata of population would imply. As for the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...to be broad, and with the subsequent arrival from the south of a fairer race with long heads, whose type assumed preponderance. There seems little reason to suppose there has been any subsequent increase of breadth except to the small extent which incorporation of primitive strata of population would imply. As for the Swedes, there is a good deal of indistinct evidence to connect them with the Lithuanian stock, and it may be observed that their present breadth-index, 77, is about equal to that of both ancient and modern Letts. The Icelanders must not pass unmentioned. The ancient colonists of this everyway remarkable island included a large proportion of the noble caste. It has been suggested, also, that the captives they brought from Ireland, and occasional intermarriages with the Irish and Scottish Gaels, gave them the ray of poetic imagination which sometimes brightens their-wonderful but sanguinary Sagas. We know from these Sagas what manner of men they were in personal appearance. They had the same varieties of complexion and hair-colour that we have, and in some cases Irish features came out with Irish blood; thus Kjartan had dark hair, and Skarphedin, the son of Njal, was the most soldierly and active of men, but he had an ugly mouth, and his teeth stuck out. The modern Icelanders are big fair men; the only skull I can find mentioned is one at Gottingen, with indices of 72-3 and 72-9. Some measurements made for me by Dr. Hjaltelin come out a little broader. In Germany and Central Europe, as elsewhere, the very oldest skulls seem to be dolichokephalic; in this case they are of the Canstatt type, and one of them is the famous Neanderthaler. Several broad skulls also have been found, which have very respectable pretensions to primitive antiquity. The cr...
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