Nordic peoples

Nordic peoples

Nordic people may refer to:

  • the population inhabiting the Nordic countries--mostly a subgroup of the Germanic people that speak the North Germanic languages, but often the Finns, a Finno-Ugric people, are included also
  • the Germanic people as a whole
  • the Nordic race, a Northern branch of the European population covered by the Nordic theory and related concepts such as Nordish race; regarded as a branch of the Aryan race; regarded by the Nazis as the master race; a population that in the late 19th and early 20th century was regarded as synonymous with what are today called the Germanic people
  • Norsemen, native speakers of one of the North Germanic languages; those from Scandinavia during the 8th to 11th centuries are also called Vikings

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