Re: OT: terms for people with different hair colours

On 2008-10-23 R A Brown wrote:
> As for hair color in the Iliad, cf.
> http://www.white-history.com/homer01.htm
>
One wonders just how light hair would have been
to be considered yellow by the Mediterraneans.

The murky old theory that the Indo-Europeans,
and the IE immigrants to Greece, were blond
is a bit foul-tasting.


/BP 8^)>
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