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Are indigenous British people who are big boned, descended from the Normans?

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Are indigenous British people who are big boned, descended from the Normans?

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  1. What? Where is that nation of big-boned, frog eating, garlic-swilling, baguette munching, fois gras sucking dwarves from? Certainly not Normandie.

    No, big-boned and French do not dwell well together. It's a bit like sating 'cultured Taliban' or 'Jeremy Clarkson, ballet-dancer'.

    No the big bones come from British Beans.

    British Human Beans.


  2. No they are not. Those who are big boned are from the pre-Celtic peoples. Like the cavemen and neanderthals. The Celts, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Normans came later.

  3. England at one time was part of the main, so, it goes without saying, they were developed along the same lines, the same ancestry.

          Fifteen to twenty thousand years ago the sea was very small and, narrow, some 600 feet shallower then now. People could have just about walked across it in winter when and if it froze in parts.

  4. My partner is 6'4, built as a brick-**** house and he traced his ancestry to Russia.  No Norman in him :-)

  5. Normans were overlords,primarily wealthy titled men, they did not come as a huge invasion of settlers,and hence most Norman blood in Britain is in the families of the wealthy (the Deveres, Spencers etc--you  can often pick out the Norman names).

       the Vikings (kin to the Normans)who raided Britain and settled in many parts may have given some folk 'big bones'--but contrary to popular belief many ancient people were large and sturdy as well. The Beaker people of the early Bronze Age were well set,with round heavy skulls, and it's not that uncommon to find 6ft tall skeletons in their graves.

  6. We're all large in our family and we desend from anc. Scots

  7. Normans are a mix of Viking, French and Breton blood, and the Brits are a mix of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Celts.

    The Anglo-Saxons were cousins of the Vikings, and the Bretons were Celts from Britain, so almost identical anyway.
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