Occasionally we have debates between those who want to remove all the characters from Norse mythology from Geni, and those who are source purists. Somehow the debate always ends up being about dwarves.
So, offered purely for entertainment, here is a recent article from Eurogenes, a popular genetics blog:
http://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2013/05/norse-dwarves-bronze-age-meta...
Quoting from the article: "While the word "Dvergar" is related etymologically to "dwarves", the early Norse concept of Dvergar is unlike the concept of "dwarves" in other cultures. For instance, Norse dwarves may originally have been envisaged as being of human size."
This article comes out of some recent discoveries that show a Bronze Age trading network for amber and copper between the eastern Mediterranean and Scandinavia.
I hope I don't really need to add that this article doesn't prove that any of us are descended from dwarves ;)
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