Through my genealogy research and also DNA-tests there is strong signs of likely/(sometimes documented) Romani roots. We in particular have significant Reisende origins from Agder county and Rogaland county in far-Southern/South Western Norwegian regions and some amount of tater/Scandinavian Romani origins as well from Trøndelag region and far-Southern Swedish ancestors. The Reisende peoples spoke Norwegian language and Rodi language related to Norwegian and Rotwelsch/Yenish language of Germanic regions. The tatere have other language related to Romani origins, some common Swedish terms are influenced by the culture as well.
The Reisende peoples had strong Sea culture, often living in boats year round. I watch a documentary about this ethnicity on online television, it was truly very interesting and informative. My maternal grandfather was skeptical of Rom people/gypsy persons like many others in our country and people in other regions of Europe. I like Romani cultures of many types even if our family is kind of distant from the ancestry.
I’m of far-Northern roots very strongly and some of my ethnicity estimates show Arctic indigenous and/or Northern Asian roots, it’s more common in Sámi groups to have some Northern Asian type ethnicity estimate and some of us look kind of mixed Asian and Northern European.
The eyes especially like eye folds and other facial features like more strong/prominent cheekbones and the sometimes coarse hair texture and thicker hair plus darker hair colour, eye colour sometimes very dark and some of us are slightly tan skin with golden-ish hue. Some see us as less beautiful than Germanic Scandinavians but I don’t agree with that view. I’m of strong Kven roots and Finnish ethnicity as well, we have also Northern Asian/Siberian DNA-test estimates similarity with Sámi people and the languages are related strong as Uralic type languages.
Thank you for reading my kind of longer post about our various ethnic backgrounds and my thoughts on it ❤ ❤
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