How Did Red Hair and Blue Eyes Spread to Europe?

[@celtichistorydecoded]

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[@orionxtc1119]

The Udmurts of Russia look exactly like Irish redheads...

[@thomasmooney5653]

When some of the older Egyptian Pharaoh mummies were found to have red hair, it was generally accepted to be a type of colouring. Closer analysis revealed it to be natural, and scan's of the skull's showed that they were European structure; not middle Eastern. The information is easily found, just not widely reported. These we found in the early pyramid's

[@theresawrightman3097]

My Husband is A Robertson of Perthshire Scotland but he has hazel eyes and is O Rh Negative??

[@inotoni6148]

Tacitus described the Germanic tribes in 98 AD that all Germanic peoples were red-haired and blue-eyed. With all the immigration, little of that is left today.

[@ygygyf-s1g]

I'm an American living in Arkansas. I have red/blond hair and blue eyes. My 7th great grandfather was born in Scotland and moved to Ireland in the 1600's after he fought in the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in Scotland. My ancestors came to America in 1699.

[@ThatJew305]

Liar! You’re a monster!

[@DustinAxelson]

Some of them did. Not all of them. Unless there's been 7 generations of inbreeding.

[@PatriciaValentini-r9w]

❤️

[@Correctly_Cory]

I'm full native and I'm better looking. Lmao.

[@timothy-michael-angelo1134]

Vry similar story here, but im orig from WV, living in boston now

[@BaldurGunnarsson]

I'm an Icelander. My hair used to be fiery red. At 71 it's golden blond.

[@kingofthejungle3833]

@BaldurGunnarsson I've always wondered why us rangas turn white with age

[@rivkaolleyphd]

My father had red hair and blue/grey eyes. His hair turned light brown with age. His DNA is largely Scottish, then English, Irish, and Scandinavian.

[@violetmoonofthenorth]

I dye my hair lighter red but have naturally auburn colouring hair with light blue eyes. Im from England but ancestry from southern Scotland with some from Scandinavia too. My mam was blonde & blue eyed. Great video ✨thanks for sharing.

[@sparklynurse]

This is very interesting! My family comes from Galicia in NW Spain. My mother had red hair and blue eyes. It's really cool to find out about these traits.

[@x2y3a1j5]

In case you didn't know before (but I bet you did indeed) Galicians parade, along with the Asturians, at the Inter Celtic Festival in Lorient, France, every year, because their other Celtic cousins recognize them as such. Galiza calidade! =)

[@sparklynurse]

@@x2y3a1j5 Thank you for sharing this! Sadly, Galicia is not officially recognized as a Celtic nation but I'm aware that we participate in various Celtic festivals. My father always believed that it was a mistake to use language as the only determinant of "Celticness" (thought he did understand the struggle to keep Celtic languages alive.) I believe there is some effort being made to revive the Galician Celtic language but I don't know if there is enough vocabulary left to reconstruct it. We immigrated to Canada many decades ago and, when I visit my family in Galicia, I rarely hear anyone speaking Gallego so I'm not sure if there is enough interest in this (to me) worthwhile project.

[@x2y3a1j5]

@@sparklynurse Yes, you and your father are 100% correct. Our other Celtic cousins criticize we lost our original Celtic language, whatever it was. That's the only part of our Celtic heritage we lost, we have never lost our Celtic DNA or culture or music. The "Leabhar Gabhala Eireann" or Book of the Invasions of Ireland in the Gaeilge (Irish) language tells how Ireland was populated by humans who came from Galicia, from a place believed to be actual A Coruna or maybe Betanzos. I'm 50% Galician by my mother (I'm from Argentina, currently living in France). I can read, understand and speak Galician. It's true that today the youngest generations do not want to learn Galician, and politicians speaking Galician have a very strong Spanish accent. However, of course very Galician understands Galician perfectly, only they'll speak it among themselves for fear of being ridiculed by outsiders. If you would like to start learning a little bit of Galician, I strongly recommend you watch and listen to wonderful YT videos by Galician folk groups Milladoiro and Luar Na Lubre to start with. Their songs are very beautiful and easy to learn by heart, giving you a foothold into the language. There are newspapers with some news in Galician (La Voz de Galicia, among others) and Wikipedia articles in Galician language. You could also search for opportunities of language exchanges via internet (Zoom, Face Time, whatever) with students from Galician universities wishing to practice their English against your practicing your Galician with them. As for reading material, I can't recommend strong enough poetess Rosalia de Castro (and new poetess Olga Novo), and for books "O lapiz do carpinteiro" by Manuel Rivas. Have a beautiful weekend, you Galician cousin from the other side of the Americas!

[@UxiaBaker]

I’m from galicia and I have red hair. When I was a child I had many friends with red/ golden hair. And grey eyes.

[@RAVENMOON-tq7ci]

VEry educational and historically acute! Thank you for the hard research!

[@richardthomas5362]

Wow! I learned two things I didn't know before: 1. Blue Eyes and Red Hair are NOT linked genetically ( I know it is complicated). 2. Northern Europe is not the only place where those kinds of people live. Thanks for doing the research.

[@eiriksinclair5986]

Cretan Giants (Vikingar) mixed with Thracian Field Workers (Olmecs), Patagonian Indians south - New Amsterdam north), Berserkers mix with Olmec Indians (Maya-Danube Austria), Lief Erikson Tartars (Vikings) mix with Maya (Toltecs-Finland), Templar Knights mix with Toltec (Aztec-Volga Russia), Sinclair Knights mix with Aztec (Caucasians-Anglican Byzantines), Domenico & Bartholomew Colombo w/10yr old Christopher (Bimini Island 1459AD**), Henry VIII (born 1491AD), Columbus (1492AD-33yrs later**)

[@Epsillion70]

I am a blonde haired , blue eyed, Red- bearded Scotsman that grew up in Australia when I was 2 years old And lived there for 40 Years But was born in Scotland and have Northern English ancestry ( Yorvik!) on my Mother’s side. And Scottish, English and part Norwegian on my fathers side.

[@orionxtc1119]

Look up the Udmurts from Udmurtia of Russia... redheads

[@ThatJew305]

Liar!!

[@marcusaurelius5149]

Same but I'm Italian. No one in my big family has red hair and only some of the guys have red facial hair.

[@ThatJew305]

@ sounds racist

[@deniztatl9992]

@@ThatJew305 Really, are you?

[@richardbooth4573]

My grand mother , mom , and my older brother all had red hair and light blue eyes . When they were very young had freckles too .

[@watchingthewheelsgoround260]

My husband and daughter both have red hair and blue eyes, I’m blonde with blue eyes.

[@sonnystaton]

Cool that my 1/4 Filipina granddaughter has that combination. Stunning with her Asian shaped eyes.

[@neilreynolds3858]

Wow! She must be stunning.

[@sonnystaton]

@neilreynolds3858 She is. My wife & I joked that we could have a granddaughter with blue eyes, only thought it was maybe 25% chance at most. The ginger red hair took everyone by surprise. She is stunning. I may be biased though. But my daughter gets stopped a lot with comments about how gorgeous she is.

[@neilreynolds3858]

@@sonnystaton I bet she does being that exotic. I'd certainly talk to her but it seems like redheads are a tribe. One of the ladies that works at the post office has curly, red hair and I automatically brush it off her face when it gets in her eyes. It's like we're all family. Give her my love.

[@williamcathcart7994]

Thank you for the lesson.

[@theseriousprepper4372]

Hello brother redhead. My family comes from Ireland and Scandinavia. I appreciate the work that you put into this! It’s very interesting to find out about where we come from throughout history. Thank you.

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks

[@mydknight357]

Red hair and light eyes are common among the Tatar people of Russia.

[@kingofthejungle3833]

@4:34 Pharoah Rameses II was red haired, and left handed, I don't know if anyone knows if he had the blue eye gene

[@JOSE-m3x2t]

I have a red haired friend that married a blond blue eyed woman. They have two son one red haired brown eyed and the other is red haired blue eyed. We are Asturians (North West Spain)

[@x2y3a1j5]

Of course they would, Asturians are an old Celtic people, they parade (as well as Galicians) at the Inter Celtic Festival in Lorient, France, every year, because their other Celtic cousins recognize them as such. Nel Pozu Maria Luisa, Puxa Asturies!

[@CC-uq4hu]

Your princess also has beautiful blue eyes and light hair

[@erkkinho]

My children and my sister's children have this combination. We are from Finland.

[@neiljohnson6815]

Blue eyed blond here. My wife has red hair and green eyes. We both have Scots Irish ancestry.

[@toddcrosland9979]

I have blue eyes born with blonde hair slowly turned black and brown

[@chrisnewbury3793]

same

[@jfv65]

Gotta love women with long red hair and blue or green eyes😍

[@NightsideOfParadise]

Real diversity

[@Ulises-Gonzalez-3131]

@@lisafreydottir We have to love whoever we want without other people telling us to love everyone, and disrespecting our preferences.

[@Ulises-Gonzalez-3131]

@@lisafreydottir again woman?, don't tell me what to do do and get back to the kitchen!

[@Ulises-Gonzalez-3131]

@@lisafreydottir again with your bs? go back to the k17 ch3n.

[@Ulises-Gonzalez-3131]

@@lisafreydottir I see you envy the blue eye red heads.

There are also red hair with green eyes.

[@chrisnewbury3793]

There's a fine line between green and blue eyes. Mine are a mosaic of both so whatever color I wear effects the color my eyes appear.

[@Jane-h5x]

Also red hair and grey eyes or red hair and hazel eyes. Also black hair and hazel eyes, blond hair and grey eyes and dark brown hair and light blue eyes. In people of Cornish (which is Celtic) and English descent.

[@blaircolquhoun7780]

Fascinating. Thank you.

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks

[@Squirrel219]

My daughter has red hair and blue eyes, as does her 2nd daughter and 1st granddaughter. My great grandmother was a redhead.

[@fredmuller4160]

Wenn deine Tochter die Blutgruppe AB- hat ,hat sie Außerirdische DNA

[@Squirrel219]

@fredmuller4160 please translate. I am limited in deutsch languages

[@fredmuller4160]

@@Squirrel219 sorry i ch..ka nn Not englich

[@Zharkov1969A]

Tremendous stuff. Thank you for this.

[@DeuDeoEgo]

I am Italian from Sardinia, red hair and magnificent green / blue eyes. I am a rarirty! The most common surname in Italy is Rossi, apparently from 'red hair' people. But it's a dark red hair like mine.

[@MrSpitfireMustang]

Humble too!

[@DeuDeoEgo]

@MrSpitfireMustang 😂 I love myself mate 😘

[@chucksolutions4579]

@@MrSpitfireMustangwas thinking the same thing… I’m sure this one was fawned over a LOT as a child. I like a light skinned light colored “good haired,” black person in the American South, almost always a spoiled brat (but admittedly attractive). Funnily enough, I’ve know quite a few red/blue combinations and despite having a striking appearance, the frizzy hair, pale freckled and usually sunburned skin didn’t make these individuals attractive beyond childhood.

[@louisbabycos106]

Rossi a subsidiary of Taurus gun manufacturer has that name . Red hair guns from Brazil.

[@DeuDeoEgo]

@@chucksolutions4579 my man / woman, please understand that I can only love myself or else who else does? There's no wrong or mean intention, I promise you.

[@jamesmapletoft4541]

I’m Australian redhead and blue eyes with British heritage. Mum was from Warwickshire and Dad from Leicestershire, real Danelaw country. I’ve always thought it was from the Norse invasion mixing with locals. Fun fact, as I’ve aged my hair had become blonder. Now 60 the grey adds a nice highlight.

[@ginashepherd9552]

Very interesting. Thank you. Red hair and green eyes occur reasonably often in my family. It's interesting about the blue.

[@cherylwaclawczyk9098]

Reading the Mummies of Urumchi points out that they also made tartan plaid materials. One mummy has a conical shaped hat, like a witch or warlock would have. The theory of a central Asian origin sounds quite plausible. Hello from a Silesian Texan with blue gray eyes and reddish hair.

[@ragael1024]

Gorgeous combo 😊

[@SquatterMoccasin]

Both Scottish and Scythian DNA corresponds with: R1b Y-DNA Haplogroups H, U and T Autosomal genes rs4988235, rs1426654, HMGA2 and EFEMP1, for lactase production, lighter skin, and taller stature respectively. Which is specifically Northwestern European DNA, so yes, the Scots are definitely related to the Scythians🏹.

[@SquatterMoccasin]

@@sperlongatours That's one genetic marker, we're talking about genetic profiles. Can you unlock a safe with one number in the combination, or do you need all of them?

[@YanArMoal44]

all Y R1b DNA carriers descend from the Yamnayas established in the Pontic steppes at the end of the Neolithic. So yes there is definitely a very old link. Some of west scythian are R1b, but mainly R1a. There is also a significant presence of R1BbM88 around Lake Tchad in sub-Saharan Africa. They descend from populations that crossed north africa when Sahara was a savannah 6 or 7000 years ago.

[@gudduukraine270]

This is the most beautiful 😍 combination in the world.

[@Mullet-ZubazPants]

My mom and grandmother have red hair, green and blue eyes, and they're amazingly chill, and not crazy at all ... and I'm not being sarcastic

[@LonersGuide]

My dad was red-headed, blue-eyed, about half Scot, about half Irish. We used to say he looked like a viking leprechaun. Very likely the Scot half was largely Pictish, being from Aberdeenshire, and having a particular genetic signature. The Scythians were well known for having lots of tattoos, as were it seems the Picts. I remember seeing a picture of a certain red-haired, bearded Georgian (Caucases) militant who looked a lot like my dad. Could have been his brother.

[@katnerd-Glen]

Well, not to be crass or anything, but red hair persists because ginger girls are ridiculously cute.

[@ArmadilloGodzilla]

All women get laid, but not all men.

[@Va_Pal_Carajo]

Amén 👌

[@teresabaker3202]

That's right!!

[@andrewnorrie3809]

I have blue/green eyes and carry the red hair gene ARG 160 TRP . My Y line is in Scotland going back to Demark .

[@neumannernst3737]

My haircolor changed many times from nature .first blond with a bit red then a bit darker red then brunette and finally light brown with blond and red parts in autumn a bit more red then in spring.I have blue grey eyes what nobody of my ancestors had as far as i know.I have from mothers side haplogroup H what is in todays world mostly in India, Pakistan and south siberia but not in europe.Great video thanks.

[@isabelled4871]

About 40 % of Europeans are H mitochondrial DNA from everything that I've read.

[@ajknaup3530]

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

[@GenericUsername1388]

I’m Portuguese and my whole family is too. I have dark hair now but as a child it was a reddish - blonde colour that gradually went darker. My older sister had much lighter hair than I do. She was fully ginger. Now her hair is a medium brown colour.

[@michaellawson6533]

One thing to remember is that peripheral population groups in north western Europe like Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia etc had the least mixtures due to being furtherest away from central and southern Europe which suffered the most from wars and invasions, causing more interbreeding, that in itself causing more ethnic, cultural and linguistic changes.

[@52hydra]

I am almost 50/50 split british irish and vietnamese with red hair brown eyes.

[@ajknaup3530]

Is it possible that red-haired, blue-eyed people from the Balkans or Central Asia settled about the North Sea. Since those are recessive genes, they may be more predominant in such an area which is not interbreeding with other genotypes as much as, say, Central Asia which is constantly subject to interbreeding on all sides.

[@mellorahall5522]

I am blonde and blue-eyed, my father has red hair and hazel eyes and my son has red hair and blue eyes. Both my father's parents had black hair.

[@Jezza-m5k]

And the Ahnenerbe search for the origins of the Aryans was centred upon the East.Fascinating channel....always highly educational and informative.

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

Cheers again mate. The Scythian/Scot thing got disproved by DNA i heard.

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

Yes, and there is zero material evidence that they came even close to ranging that far north and west.

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

@SerbianLifter997 The DNA says different mate

[@SquatterMoccasin]

If you: Have R1b Y-DNA Are part of Haplogroups H, U and T And have the autosomal genes rs4988235, rs1426654, HMGA2 and EFEMP1, for lactase production, lighter skin, and taller stature respectively. Then you are European.

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

@@SquatterMoccasin I`m R-M269 but a short one mate😁

[@jboss1073]

@@SquatterMoccasin Those look like completely arbitrary criteria. A more objective criterion would be that a European is whoever genetically scores within average Fixation Index (Fst) distance from native Europeans. In fact, Biology already uses this criterion for exactly that purpose (population substructuring).

[@erichawman8483]

Fascinating genetics and history. At 57 my hair is still holding its red color, and eyes, of course, as blue as ever. I suspect it primarily came through my grandfather, who immigrated from Denmark.

[@andreashu2567]

Beautyful red hair blue eyes Splendiit red hair in the sun✨

[@mrluchothesupers]

There certainly could be a connection between the Celts and certain parts of Asia. The sons of Miletus are said to have come from some far part in the East before they set foot in Spain, plus you have the Celts living in Turkey for a long span of time after their invasion of the area (Galatia, as found in the Bible). Great channel my friend.

[@RebelLeigh]

I'm from Oklahoma, I have blue eyes with red accents in my hair. My mother had red hair and green eyes

[@helenckerrmccallum6443]

Living in Scotland My mother had auburn hair and green eyes My hair is auburn and my eyes are grey green Son has red hair and blue eyes

[@TIGERZY2K]

This red hair and blue eyes reminds me of the character of Aerial from Little Mermaid the modern day fairy tale from Eastern Europe

[@HMot-g2x]

To me, the weirdest thing is that Rameses II, pharoah of the New Kingdom in the 2nd millenium BC, was a redhead. They found his mummy.

[@chrisnewbury3793]

It's not weird at all. We see the same pattern all over the world, especially in The Northern Hemisphere.

[@OlivierPAUL-zd2ec]

Egypt in North Europe ?😂😂😂😂 Also, how many 92 years old me with natural red hair sir Einstein ? 😂😂😂😂 Just think before talkin' 😊

[@matthau87]

@@OlivierPAUL-zd2ec The Northern Hemisphere is far bigger than Northern Europe

[@ajknaup3530]

Yes, I think there've been multiple Egyptian mummies found with red-hair.

[@OlivierPAUL-zd2ec]

@ajknaup3530 multiples... 92 old year men ... No body seems old men ... 🤣🤣😉 WE all become red hair AT 90 old. For sure .....

[@elizabethdavis1696]

There many Jewish people with red hair and some of the people mentioned in the Bible had red hair.

[@gauravghosh3421]

Yes that is form inner asain coirdoor immigant to west asai brought red hair blonde hair blue eyes mabe even green eyes...

[@Curiosity-ye4bq]

@@gauravghosh3421 I agree where did you learn this?

[@robertrobski1013]

Because many jews been mixed with whites

[@jeanmackenzie4781]

True

[@robertrobski1013]

@@elizabethdavis1696 because they are mixed with whites

[@MoonStar-fq6oy]

Interesting Thank ya ✌️❤️

[@js4540]

One of my favorite combinations 😁

[@jerzypawlowski7999]

Living in the northern lattitudes doesn't explain why Europeans developed light skin and blue eyes. Why didn't the Inuit (Eskimos) develop light skin and blue eyes?

[@user-yt3xd2jl6d]

Many Siberians have light skin and even some red hair, such as the Komi, Mari and Khanty.

[@user-yt3xd2jl6d]

The Volga Tatars are the reddest people in the world, along with the Scots, but the Tatars, unlike other Europeans, have large amounts of DNA associated with Siberia and Central Asia. I myself have done an analysis of their genome and it is quite exotic compared to the typical European.

[@jerzypawlowski7999]

@@user-yt3xd2jl6d So there must be another explanation for light skin and blue eyes, not living in the northern lattitudes. Because then the Inuit (Eskimos) would have also developed light skin and blue eyes.

[@user-yt3xd2jl6d]

​@@jerzypawlowski7999Inuit have genes associated with light skin, MC1R, KITG, MFSD12. But they are not positively selected. The MFSD12 genes are unique to Siberian and Native American populations, the East Asian-exclusive versions of MC1R and KITG cause light skin, and the SLC24A5 and SLC24A2 genes cause light skin in Europeans and Middle Eastern populations. Given these distributions, we can assume that light skin evolved independently in different parts of the world, but it is also evident that there was mixing, creating a gradient in populations that can be seen with the naked eye.

[@user-yt3xd2jl6d]

​@@jerzypawlowski7999The two main genes for blue eyes are OCA2 and Herc2, with OCA2 being the most important. The Herc2 variant that causes blue eyes is almost exclusively found in Europe, but the OCA2 gene that greatly influences pigmentation is widespread in Middle Eastern, South Asian and Native American populations, but the OCA2 variant does not exist in East Asians.

[@Manfred19840804]

How is it that no one is commenting on your awesome accent. I think your diction is perfect. It sounds nearly like an LLM created voice if I didn’t see that there’s a human there.

[@adjman48]

When I visited Ireland and Scotland I was surprised by how many people didn't have red hair. The dark-haired blue-eyed look seemed far more common.

[@fastbackgt4821]

When I was 2 1/2 years old, I had light red hair with blue eyes. When I was 4, my hair turned light blond hair with the same blue eyes. My mother - dark blonde/green eyes, my father medium blond/blue eyes. The red hair comes from 2 close family members on my mother's side of the family. My facial hair is blond and black, body hair is black. My mother's father is mostly Cherokee Indian. Us Americans are mutts, in a good way lol

[@66block84]

Red hair with green eyes. Although now in my 70's the only red hair left is my eyebrows.

[@leifcian4288]

So is auburn type hair colour a different or related genetic type of trait?

[@flightographist]

it's the same mc1r.

[@leifcian4288]

@@flightographist All auburn type hair? The percentage of this gene plus blue eyes must be quite a bit higher than stated here then..

[@flightographist]

@@leifcian4288 No, you might be confusing auburn with brunette. It's 1-2%.

[@leifcian4288]

@@flightographist I don't think so, I'm meaning auburn in like the copperish colour range sort of thing. Must be a much higher percentage of the population than is stated in the video if that's the same gene, although I understand it was more meaning the straight reddish range colours.

[@flightographist]

@@leifcian4288 Globally it's 1-2%, in Scotland as high as 19%,.

[@JangianTV]

Fascinating, truly! Look forward to a future video on the Udmur, and perhaps Russian people as a whole. 😊

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks, I'm looking forward to making it.

[@Curiosity-ye4bq]

Udmurt have geneic marker of Yamanya, which udmurt r1b is even closer to basal yamanay than bell beaker r1b one coudl say they are direct ydna descdetn of yamnaya, and 5-% yamanya do show red hair and volgid udmurt liek phenotype.

[@dude7127]

@@celtichistorydecoded For me, as a red-haired Tatar (Kipchak people) from the Volga region (real name Atil or Raha), the fact that we got red hair from the Slavs sounds not just like an insult, but like absolute nonsense. The Slavs do not have the large percentage of red-haired people that representatives of the Volga region have. At the same time, ethnic Russians or other Slavs are not autochthonous inhabitants of the Volga region. They migrated there in the 16th to 20th centuries. In the territory of ethnic Russians, red-haired people are a rarity.

[@supremercommonder]

I am Pakistani with ginger beard I also got a lot central Asian udmut admixture

[@carolinekofahl8867]

I had redish blond hair and the eyes are still green. The eyes serm to come from a Scottish Irish ancester who came to Denmark in early 18th C.

[@Livewyr7]

Brown Hair Blue Eyes Red Beard. So fun

[@cellis1066]

My daughter unexpectedly had red hair. After she was born my FIL told us that her paternal grandmother had auburn hair that she dyed blond and my mother told me my great-grandmother on her side gad red hair. Both her father and I have blue eyes so that wasn't as much a shock. I find it very interesting that she benefited from two genetic mutations. Our family has a history of coming from Ireland and Scotland and I feel that explains her beautiful coloring. I had no idea that the apparent origins of ginger hair and blue eyes is the Asian steppe.

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

Both fraternal sister and I are redheads, as well as youngest sister. Other siblings blond, brown, black...both parents black.

[@drakegod84]

I have light brown, sandy blonde hair, and an odd combination of a red beard and pubes with blue eyes. I wonder how common that is?

[@Abdelhakz-we7hk]

I'm a north african bereber when i was young my hair was red and my eyes were blue now i have dark brown hair and green eyes

[@x2y3a1j5]

You're probably the descendant of one of the 4 million Christian women who were captured somewhere in Europe between 700 and 1830 (1,100 years) by your Berber Pyrates ancestors and turned into a sex slave.

[@neilreynolds3858]

Not just red hair and blue eyes, I have curly hair and beard and red skin too. The number of people in the world that look like me would maybe fill a city. It would be one hell of a party though. My ancestry is every country that borders on the North Sea plus Ireland. My Y chromosome can be traced back around 5,000 years ago to an area northwest of Paris.

[@TishGilroy]

Is the red hair/ blue eye combo disappearing? My colouring comes from my Grandfather, born in UK. I have not passed mine onto my daughter.

[@grimmir2571]

Tacitus describes the Germans as being blue eyed with reddish blonde hair and large bodies, Ceaser : the red hair and large limbs of the inhabitants of california proclaim their germanic origin

[@michaellawson6533]

My beard was polished copper red in my 20s. By my 30s it all started to whiten. At 39 both beard and hair white. I have blue eyes and am very sun sensitive. Paternal line is Danish.

[@iauhdinavlissaid872]

My eyes are Amber Yellow....

[@onenewworldmonkey]

I want to see the stats on the propensity of the curtains matching the drapes. Side note, I've read where blue eyes are actually better at seeing in the dark. This means it came from up north.

[@neilreynolds3858]

I don't know about that but I can't see anything when the sun is low in front of me. It doesn't seem to be all people with blue eyes though. It was probably okay where the skies were misty all the time but I live in the desert and try to avoid driving off into the sunset.

[@teresabaker3202]

The curtains match the drapes

[@oakstrong1]

The Idea that Finnish people came somewhere from Siberia seems to be more popular again, further supported by small pockets of near-extinct and extinc languages closely related to Finnish... Not that many Swedish or Russians occupied or migrated to the deep part of Finland where I come from... but my cousin on mother's side was born with red hair and greenish-blue eyes. Definitely no Vikings in her ancestry! One of my sons was born with red hair and blue eyes (2/3 kids have my blue eyes, which together with grey is the most common eye-colour in Finland, especially in my day with practically no immigration) - but in my case, his grandfather had red hair when he was younger, before it turned mousey. His dad's beard is peppered with red hairs.... My son's father says his ancestors came somewhere from Russia. I also have Danish and German blood from my father, but that doesn't explain my cousin... Bot her and my son's hair were more like orange than red, because the "base" of their hair is typical "Scandinavian Ash blond". Indeed, my cousin's red hair had turned into blond hair by the time she was in middle school. My son (in mid 30's) still has distinctly orange hair but it isn't as vibrant, and you can see some very light ash hairs among them here and there.

[@mithrasenkidu9423]

Thanks a lot for this very interesting video! I'm French myself but my grandparents were all four born in Andalusia, in the south of Spain. Now, if my maternal grandmother was not a redhead, she was nevertheless covered in freckles from head to toe. Oddly enough, in each generation, there is always a girl (never a boy!) who's born a redhead with light eyes on that side of the family, while statistics predict that less than 1% of Spaniards are redheads! As for me, when I was young I was light brown-haired and I had a few red hairs in my beard when I happened to let it grow (in my profile picture I have my hair dyed black because it dates from the time when I was an emo ^^). Now I have gray hair and an entirely white beard. I also get freckles on my nose and cheeks, but only during the first two weeks of spring, when the sun starts to hit a bit hard (I live in the south of France). After these two weeks, I start to tan and my freckles disappear until the following spring.

[@mrmervinjminky1536]

I’m 6ft 3inch tall, have blue eyes, red hair, and I’m originally from the Scottish Highlands. My name is also ‘Willie’. I think I fit every ‘Teuchter’ stereotype… even the squirrels and cows up there are ginger 😂

[@ajknaup3530]

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[@Leif-vc9ek]

I myself have auburn brown wavy hair, hazel brown eyes, orange beard & freckles. My DNA test say I’m 33% Norwegian, 25% German, 17% Danish, 17% English, 5% Irish, 2% Scottish, 1% welsh. The origin of the red gene is interesting for sure.

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

I'm picturing rows of primary school children, being taught to speak this way by earnest school teachers. What a thick brogue to my Canadian ears.

[@DustinAxelson]

People have a hard time with things that don't fit neatly in a box, which is just about everything. We're all mixed up, people have been moving around, displacing, mixing, borrowing ideas, etc. from the "beginning of time".

[@jofoz1937]

@CopperCab is the Craziest ginger ever

[@loboxx337]

How do you explain green and violet eye color?

[@x2y3a1j5]

Genetic mutations through genetic lottery. NOTHING to do with living in any "special" area, or any "special" diet, or any other "special" physical attribute. Just genetic lottery. Always remember: genetic lottery has NO explanations. It just happens, end of the story. There's a tribe in Africa where they have striking cobal blue eyes. Another tribe in the Pacific have blond hair. Another tribe in Pakistan look 100% ethnic Europeans and have ZERO European DNA.

[@VeraNarishkin]

My family is from Russia. My mother had ash-blond hair which darkened as she grew older, and she had blue-green eyes and tanned skin, her brothers had black hair, brown eyes and a darkish skin. My youngest brother likewise has ash-blond hair which never darkened, has blue-green eyes, and a permanently tanned skin. I was blonde as a child and my hair darkened to dark brown with red glints in the sunlight, I have dark brown eyes which look greenish in strong light, and a slight permanent tan. My father had dark hair and dark brown eyes, and a slight tan, The origins of both my parent's families are from the Black Sea area, my father's familiy originally came from Crimea. To my knowledge, there never was red hair in either of my parent's ancestries.

[@rhondawhite5202]

My brother has red hair and blue eyes. He is great!

[@sweetjesus697]

I had blonde hair as a child but as an adult its dark brown to blonde tinged depending on the season and sun exposure, i have green eyes, my 5 sons have dark brown hair/blue eyes, light brown/green eyes, red hair/blue eyes, blonde hair/blue eyes, and brown hair/blue eyes, my mrs has light brown, blue eyes. My dna test said mostly scottish/irish/english with a bit of Finnish amd unfortunately someone jumped the fence a while back and i have a little meso-american as well.

[@chippychick6261]

I’m from Scotch Irish heritage. Red hair/ green eyes.

[@alanwood7373]

I'm a red head with brown eyes

[@kingofcelts]

We in Ireland think we're special in this respect and maybe Scotland even more so! However, red hair is prevalent in the middle East to an extent and Russia etc.. what I think is fairly unique is Black hair and Blue eyes..

[@x2y3a1j5]

FYI, Redhair prevalence in the Middle East is due to the fact of centuries of razzias by the Ottoman Turks all over Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia to capture CHRISTIAN SLAVES. All the men were castrated (90% death rate) and all the women were used as sex slaves. Even your people in Ireland got razzied and enslaved by the Berber Pyrates, sometimes full villages. Razzias were made to places as far from Northern Africa as Iceland and Norway. So, of course that 1,100 years (700-1830 AD) of a constant influx of Christian slave women made to be sexually humiliated by their fanatical Muslim captors would produce a mestizo offspring, part of which would carry the red hair genes. Fairly unique, because much rarer still, is red hair + green eyes: green eyes is 1% of the world population, much less common than blue eyes. Because of genetic lottery, that may happen to anyone, anywhere, there's a tribe in Africa where they have striking cobalt blue eyes. There's another tribe in the Pacific where they've developed blonde hair.

[@Tigrette-m1x]

Ça se voit assez en Syrie, Turquie etc

[@lorigraham2496]

Red hair with bluish green eyes. DNA test listed Scotland Ireland, England and Norway as my ancestry.

[@delven121]

Well of Celtic ancestry and bald with gray reddish beard, blue eyes (sometimes green)

[@briandowning4560]

COPPERCAB #2

[@Robert-d2t]

My hair turned from red to white-blond, eyes blue. Now dirty blond but always think of all the shit i got for the red hair when i was young.

[@sunmoonstars3879]

Atlantean blood line - Rh negative - blonde/red hair blue/green eyes

[@almo29]

"Ahn thah woarrrLd" Love the thick dialect :)

[@deevke13]

i had so beautiflul red hair when is was young! sadly it darkend to brown and black and now starting to gray... sadly never had bleu eyes

[@lovetoedit]

I had thought that when the Spanish Armada was blown off course many Spanish sailors shipwrecked on the Irish and Scottish coast and mixing with the local inhabitants. Possibly producing the red hair.

[@lanceyoung9955]

Everyone in my family has blue eyes, but I'm the only one with red hair. Practically a unicorn! Would love to know how much medieval Scots knew about Scythia to add that as part of thier backstory.

[@janeslater8004]

My mother has red hair emerald green eyes her mother was irish

[@vickiwright-taylor4704]

I'm American with Scottish ancestry. Red hair, blue eyes. It would be awesome if I could claim neanderthal genes.

[@MaryKDayPetrano]

The 17,000 year old baby in Italy with blue eyes is very interesting.

[@thesavagereservation]

My daughter and I both have red hair and blue eyes-- as far as I know, we are primarily German descent ( Americans) with little bits of French and English but never had any genetic testing so who knows...

[@williambuchanan77]

Red hair and blue eyes is really sexy. I fall in love with women with those two faster that I do with blonds.