Post-World War II theories
In 1975, a mainstream Polish encyclopedia used this image as example of
the "Nordic race"
The depigmentation theory received notable support from later anthropologists, thus in 1947 Melville
Jacobs noted: "To many physical anthropologists Nordic means a group with an especially high
percentage of blondness, which represent a depigmentated Mediterranean". In her work Races of
Man (1963, 2nd Ed. 1965) Sonia Mary Cole went further to argue that the Nordic race belongs to the
"brunette Mediterranean" Caucasoid division but that it differs only in its higher percentage of blonde
hair and light eyes. The Harvard anthropologist Claude Alvin Villee Jr. also was a notable proponent of
this theory, writing: "The Nordic division, a partially depigmised branch of the Mediterranean
group." Collier's Encyclopedia as late as 1984 contains an entry for this theory, citing anthropological
support.
The Swedish anthropologist Bertil Lundman introduced the term "Nordid" to describe the Nordic race in
his book The Races and Peoples of Europe (1977) as:
"The Nordid race is light-eyed, mostly rather light-haired, low-skulled and long-skulled (dolichocephalic),
tall and slender, with more or less narrow face and narrow nose, and low frequency of blood type gene q.
The Nordid race has several subraces. The most divergent is the Faelish subrace in western Germany and
also in the interior of southwestern Norway. The Faelish subrace is broader of face and form. So is the
North-Atlantid subrace (the North-Occidental race of Deniker), which is like the primary type, but has
much darker hair. Above all in the oceanic parts of Great Britain the North-Atlantic subrace is also very
high in blood type gene r and low in blood type gene p. The major type with distribution particularly in
Scandinavia is here termed the Scandid or Scando-Nordid subrace."
Some forensic scientists, pathologists and anthropologists up to the 1990s continued to use the
tripartite division of Caucasoids: Nordic, Alpine and Mediterranean, based on their
cranial anthropometry. The anthropologist Wilton M. Krogman for example identified Nordic racial
crania in his work "The Human Skeleton in Forensic Medicine" (1986) as being "dolichochranic".
Clan’s Relations With These Two Races
In the annals of human history, there exist fascinating tales of ancient clans whose lineage traces back to
the diverse and enigmatic realms of the Caucasian and Nordic races. These ancestral ties not only reveal
captivating stories of migration and cultural exchange but also shed light on the interconnectedness of
human societies in the distant past.