Elling Polden
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 Posted: Tue 24 May, 2005 9:24 am Post subject: Average heights outside Northern Europe |
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Hi everyone.
I have been looking around for infomation on the average height of people in the middle ages. So far the net has only givien me the one figure that i allready know from my own history books; about 1.73 for north europeans/Norwegians.
This figure is about 7 cm shorter than the pressent average.
So, can anybody help me out with average heighs for, lets say, France or Spain?
"this [fight] looks curious, almost like a game. See, they are looking around them before they fall, to find a dry spot to fall on, or they are falling on their shields. Can you see blood on their cloths and weapons? No. This must be trickery."
-Reidar Sendeman, from King Sverre's Saga, 1201
Last edited by Elling Polden on Tue 24 May, 2005 9:40 am; edited 1 time in total
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