Rather liked this...

www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/16/dark-hair-was-common-among-vikings-genetic-study-confirms

So being a Viking was more of a job description than an ethnic grouping. What appears interesting here is how over a thousand years or so, the descendants of the Vikings seem to have lost a lot of their melanin.

I wonder if we were all getting blonder over the generations.

Not me, obvs. I am descended from Normans who were Norsemen. But good old English miscegenation means that I have Irish, Indian, Portuguese, Welsh, and German ancestry; as well as the Scandawegian reaver genes allied with Anglo-Saxon stock - which makes me a fairly commonplace mixture in London but probably quite exotic to the mono-cultural purists  elsewhere.

I suppose it’s the gas chamber for me if the new fascists ever consolidate power. I’m the living definition of cosmopolitanism excepting for lack of Jewishness. I suppose I could convert to make a point, but I’m not the kind to convert to a religion. Find me an organised religion and I will find a way of becoming apostate with elan, if not actual brio. And if there’s going to be a religion I don’t believe in it’s going to be C’tholicism.

I really think, post Lovecraft, that the Catholic Church should lose that “a”. C’tholic seems to suit the institution so much better; æsthetically speaking.