Actually (celtic coloring)

Date: Tuesday, 2 November 2010 08:58 pm (UTC)
To be super-accurate here, the Celts were supposedly tall and fair. But my Dad, who is Swedish-Irish by descent, has your Arthur's coloring exactly. And a very typical coloring in Ireland is: dark hair, fair skin, light eyes. I read that the Celts - the Irish, in particular - were supposed to be redheads, but that was because they brushed their dark hair back with lime (or henna?) so that it would look like their horses' manes!

I guess what people think today is that the Celts were relatively fair, and the pre-celtic people of the British Isles were small and dark. The modern coloring results from an admixture.

In any case, Arthur would likely have been part-Roman, wouldn't he?

Anyway, I like him! And I love his expression.
This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

March 2022

S M T W T F S
  12345
678910 1112
13141516 171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Thursday, 17 July 2025 09:21 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios