At the same time that hair you dismiss as BROWN is most likely a consequence of its exhibitor leading a mostly indoor life AND still having the red/yellow, or red/brown pigment gene!
Humanity has TWO COLORS ~ one is red/brown (pop. 200,000,000) and the other black/brown (pop. 6,800,000,000).
You can't miss 'em.
Everything else is handled by the contrast control or raster rate!
“and have much more than their fair share of Norman and Saxon blood”
Wrong again.
That only applies to county Ulster and the “Norman/Saxon” you mention were the “Planters” sent by the Anglos.
Norman William the Conqueror is probably who you’re thinking of, in 1066. [he, of Viking/Celtic ancestry born of Norse people who wound up in formerly Celtic Normandy, France having once been *Gaul*]
The Planters were sent there by the English overlords who shoved my ancestors on the “Cromwell Cruise Lines”.
The north of Ireland and the coastlines were heavily settled by Norse/Danish Vikings [Danish, primarily] while Scotland was invaded mostly by the Norseman.
The Welsh, themselves, are a unique people:
“In two recently published books, Blood of the Isles, by Brian Sykes and The Origins of the British, by Stephen Oppenheimer, both authors state that according to genetic evidence, most Welsh people, like most Britons, descend from the Iberian Peninsula, as a result of different migrations that took place during the Mesolithic and the Neolithic eras, and which laid the foundations for the present-day populations in the British Isles, indicating an ancient relationship among the populations of Atlantic Europe.According to Stephen Oppenheimer 96% of lineages in Llangefni in north Wales derive from Iberia. Genetic research on the Y-chromosome has shown that the Welsh, like the Irish, share a large proportion of their ancestry with the Basques of Northern Spain and South Western France, although the Welsh have a greater presumed Neolithic input than both the Irish and the Basques. Genetic marker R1b averages from 83-89% amongst the Welsh.”
“Iberia”, in case you’re not aware, is now called “Spain”.
You might also want to research “P-Celtic vs. Q-Celtic” and *why* each group speaks one...or the other.
[clue: genetic physiologic predisposition caused the “split”]
“At the same time that hair you dismiss as BROWN is most likely a consequence of its exhibitor leading a mostly indoor life AND still having the red/yellow, or red/brown pigment gene!”
This is just too silly to even seriously address.
Suffice to say that if your “theory” were true, the outdoor-living nomadic Watusi would all be platinum blonds *and* somehow magically pass on their sun-bleached hair via genetics to their offspring.