Germans
The northern Germans (I am from the south) have perhaps slightly flatter feet than the southern Germans
The northern Germans (I am from the south) have perhaps slightly flatter feet than the southern Germans (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
The first part of the comparison is somewhat of a surprise to me, but not so the other part, that the southern Germans inhabiting a hillier country, and belonging to a different race, may well be high (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)
- relationship: Swedes and Norwegians should therefore consider. (The Danish History, > Book Eight.)
"Swedes and Norwegians should therefore consider, how far the multitudes of the North had always surpassed the Germans and the Sclavs."
Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx
- attestation: The northern Germans (I am from the south) have perhaps slightly flatter feet than the southern Germans (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
"The northern Germans (I am from the south) have perhaps slightly flatter feet than the southern Germans.'"
- attestation: The first part of the comparison is somewhat of a surprise to me, but not so the other part, that the southern Germans inhabiting a hillier country, and belonging to a different race, may well be high (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
"The first part of the comparison is somewhat of a surprise to me, but not so the other part, that the southern Germans inhabiting a hillier country, and belonging to a different race, may well be higher in the instep than the more northern speakers of the German language."