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| White Sami were thought to be first Swedes |
An ad for a documentary about "The First Swedes," who were dark-skinned and blue eyed, has prompted fear and denial on Twitter.
As the series was to air on Swedish TV, the SVT channel began promoting it. Some people reacted on social media with disbelief and anger.
The documentary looks at DNA technology, which has revealed more about how Sweden was populated after the Ice Age. It details how the first pioneers in the country were dark-skinned with blue eyes. They came from the south [though long thought to be Native Swedish Sami people from the Lapland].
Another population of people, who had paler skin and various eye and hair colors, arrived around the same time from the east [the Sami?].
The two peoples are thought to have mixed fairly quickly, and Nordic people eventually became lighter skinned, allowing them to increase their Vitamin D production to survive in the dark winters. More
I tried to find images from that show "The First Swedes," and the first results were all literal Nazi sites ranting about how mad they were that it (accurately, I should say) depicted the first Swedes as blue eyed, black haired, and dark skinned.
— 🍯💛HONEYBEAR💛🍯 (@HoneyBear_Amber) Feb. 17, 2019
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