RACIAL ELEMENTS IN SWEDEN 



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NORDIC TYPES 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



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ever especially in Scania, the round type of face appears more than twice as often. 

 (In about 45 per cent). 



The colour of the eyes in 47.4 per cent was blue, in 19.3 per cent grey, in 

 28.8 per cent mixed, and in 4.5 per cent brown. The colour of the hair was in 

 23.3 per cent fair, in 52 per cent cendre, in 21.6 per cent brown, in 0.8 per cent 

 black, and in 2.3 per cent red. Taking into account the blue and grey eyes, and 

 the yellow and cendre hair there is found to be in Sweden 66.7 per cent with 

 light eyes and 75.3 per cent with fair hair. The southern provinces and East 

 Gothaland show a higher percentage of brown eyes than the rest of Sweden, 

 and in the northern provinces is found a perceptibly higher percentage of eyes 

 of mixed colours. Brown and black hair also reaches a higher number in the 

 north. More than half of the Swedish population consists of the blonde type. 

 (Light eyes and fair hair.) 



The North European or Nordic (Germanic or Teutonic) race is found to be 

 without comparison the most important constituent in the Swedish nation, for 

 there is more or less Teutonic blood in the veins of the bulk of the people. 



The Swede of pure Nordic type is tall and strong. The head and face are 

 relatively long, the complexion fair and ruddy, the hair fair, and the nose most 

 often short and straight. 



In Figs 1 to 3 are shown some pure types: (Fig. 1,) a girl from Dalcarlia; 

 (Fig. 2,) a peasant from Sodermanland and (Fig. 3,) Jenny Lind, a noble repre* 

 sentative of the northern branch. In the Plates I— VII (given in section II) 

 we also find a number of Swedes of the present day of comparatively pure 

 type; on Plates VIII— X are given several Swedish types of different mixed kinds. 

 It is of course of great interest to investigate where, within the bounds of 

 Sweden, the pure Nordic type is to be found in the greatest numbers. If we take 

 as a criterion of the pure Nordic race, (1) genuine long skulls, (with a length* 

 breadth index number up to 75) (2) tall stature, (170 cm. or more) (3) fair hair, 

 (4) light eyes, we find by looking at the chart map, drawn from the Anthropo* 

 logia Suecica (see also table I) that the average number in Sweden reaches 10.7 

 per cent. The ligther parts on the map show the provinces in which more than 10 



