Is it true you think that people from areas of Brittany France have long noses?

Question

why and how is this seen in areas of the UK nowadays?

are these people referred to as Normans?

what is a brief history of these people?

Thanks for your answers!

Answer 1

I didn't notice any long noses when I was in Brittany last year!

People in Brittany are called Bretons and you'll note that sounds a lot like 'Britons'. Brittany was also known as Lesser Britain, because it has always  had close ties to Britain, especially Cornwall.

   The people who live there have a celtic/pre-celtic ancestry rather than purely French,and they speak a celtic languages as well as French and have their own costume and traditions. the Breton language is closer to Cornish/Welsh than to Gaelic.

   Trade between Brittany and Britain goes back to neolithic times,when great megalithic stone monuments were raised to the sun,moon and the ancestral dead. (Stonehenge itself may have some Breton influence.) The stone rows of Carnac certainly remind one of those at Avebury.