Continental Nordic race

The Continental Nordic race (or Celtic Nordic race) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. It was subclassification of the said Caucasian race. The race was said to have merged into the Alpine and Scandinavian Nordic races. Continental Nordics encompassed a large area in modern-day Spain, France, Great Britain, and Ireland. The populations of the race were said to be Celtic people.
Distribution
The era between 1800 B.C. and 100 B.C. is noted by Madison Grant as "The Expansion of Pre-Teutonic Nordics (Continental Nordics)".
Continental Nordics first entered Gaul (except for Aquitania) in the 9th century B.C. and had also conquered Iberia in around 600 B.C., though they then had mixed in with the natives.
Around 1000 B.C., the Continental Nordics migrated to several Weser, Elbe, and Rhine valleys and the modern-day Low Countries. In 800 B.C., they then extended towards Great Britain and more south towards the Main and Danube rivers, though, their Weser, Elbe, and Rhine had been abandoned and taken by the Alpine race.
In Continental Europe, the population in the now-Low Countries are known as Belgae, while the ones in the Italian Peninsula establish the "Cisalpine Gaul", though, in the northeast the Umbri and the Osci had entered earlier in the peninsula and brought the first Indo-European languages in Italy. such as the Frisians.
Physical traits
A brief description by Madison Grant is given his book The Conquest of a Continent.
The continental Nordics, however, who moved westward to settle around the Baltic and North Seas, retained the more generalized characters of brown hair of various shades, and eyes which tend to either brown, gray, or, to a less extent, blue. It was also noted in Eugenical News that they had hazel and light brown eyes, among others. The characteristic of red hair is also noted by Grant in the book, opening a possibility.
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