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imþrofaable, for most Icelanders are tall and slender, at least
compared with tlie Danes, and have no leaning to corpnlence.
It seems highly doubtful that the weight of the Ieelanders
is owing to their being more corpulent than Norwegians and
Swedes or tliat it is owing to the colder climate, as H. Daa
assumed in the case of the inhabitants of the Troms district
in Norway. It is noteworthv that he found a comparatively
heavy weiglit (67,8 kg.) in the counties of Sogn and Fjordene,
that is, in districts which sent forth the highest pereentage of
the first settlers of Iceland across the sea.
2. Measurement of the trunk, head and neck.
Head and neck. The chief relative (to stature) measures
of length in men of recruiting age in Iceland and Norway were:
Total height af head (v—gn)
Length of neck (gn—sst)
Head plus neck (v—sst)
Icelunders Norwegians
12,7 12,3
5,2 5,3
17,9 17,6
They do not differ much. Head plus neck seems to be 3 mm.
longer in the Icelanders than in the men of Trondhjem, thougli
not much weight can be attached to this difference, as these
measures vary a great deal according to the attitude of the
head. The heiglit of head and neck are prohably very similar
in Icelanders and Norwegians, if not quite the same.
T h e t r u n k. The relative measures of height are as follows:
Height of suprasternale
Height of syniphysion
Height of trunk (sy—sst)
Sitting heiglit
Icelunders
82,0
52.6
29,4
52.7
Norwegians
82,3
52.6
29.7
52.8
The height of the symphysion is thus completely equal in
the two nations, while the height of the trunk is about 5 mm.
less in the Icelanders than in the men of Trondhjem, i. e. by
as much as their head plus neck were ionger. This small differ-
ence is insignificant in tall men. The sitting height is practically
the same (52,8 in Norwegians and Icelanders of the age of
20 to 40 years).
The nipples and the navel seem to be placed higher in Nor-
wegians than in Icelanders, hut I have measured these in so
few persons, that no conclusion can safely be drawn therefrom.
The relative hreadths of the trunk ars as follows:
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