"Blue eyes, dark hair, and fair skin... can anyone explain?"

More of the Ancient British and Irish Polly Walker, Elizabeth Taylor. Romano British also can be Cary Grant. The Romano British are not as fair as the Ancient British and Irish but they are not by any means olive skin. Their looks are more common as you go further south in France as well to the coast as well. The ancient Gauls that lived in France to Northern Italy SW Germany to the Alps also shared the same looks at the Ancient British and Irish. Ancient British and Irish as well as the French are very fair with a lot of red in their coloring and many of them freakle. The Germanic people of Northern/ Eastern Germany to Scandanavia are usually fair too but they seem to have a lot more yellowish in the complexions like Tom Felton (Malfoy in Harry Potter) This is not set in stone but I think this is the closest to reality. If you look at Dna, R1b is Ancient British, Irish, French and yes Spanish. 90 perecent of the Irish have this DNA, 80 percent of the Scottish people, 90 percent of the Welsh and 75 percent of the English. The Eastern English from Suffolk to the borders of Scotland have 60 percent R1b to 35 percent Germanic DNA I1A/R1A and 5 percent is Mediteranean DNA. As you go west and NW in England, the more R1b and the more south, the more R1b and more Mediteranean Dna. Southern to Western England has about 75 to 80 percent DNA R1B. More west you go, the mediteranean DNA goes from 5 in the East and 10 percent in the West and into Wales and to Southern England. Germanic DNA in Southern England is about 15 pecent to about 10 percent in Western and Northwestern England. Most of the Germanic DNA in Ireland about 10 percent is from the Vikings. Scotland has about 20 percent. 30 percent on the East Coast and about 15 pecent on the West Coast. The Southern Scottish have about 3 to 5 percent Dna that is mediteranean mostly in the areas the Romans were in and that was in the South north of Hadrians Wall and south of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The French have about 70 percent R1B, 15 pecent mediteranean, 8 percent germanic and now at least 7 percent North African Dna. Most of the Germanic DNA there is in the North and Northeast. Mediteranean is all over but more on the Southern Coast to the SE coast of France. R1B is about 80 to 90 percent in the Northwest in France and about 90 to 100 percent in in the SW of France. Spain also has 70 percent of R1b. 80 percent of Catalonia and Galicia and decreases as you go south. The South of Spain and Portugal has about 65 percent R1B. Basque Country has about 90 to 100 percent R1B. The Spanish have about 5 percent germanic DNA. The North and the coast has the most and decreases as you go south. Most of the rest are mediteranean J2 about 20 pecent. More that is all over Spain and Portugal. About 3 pecent is North African (mainly J1) and 10 percent on the Southern Iberian Coast and decreases as you go North. The remaining is E that is Mediteranean that is European and North African. Germany has about 35 to 40 percent R1b and mostly concentrated in the West and South in the Alps where the percentages are about 70 percent. During the Roman Empire, these areas were considered Celtic before the Germanic takeover during the fall of the Empire. When you get to Scandanavia, about 15 pecent of Swedes are R1B and 5 percent of Finns, 20 percent of Norwegians and about 20 percent of the Danes. The rest of their Dna are R1A and I1A. I believe many of the R1b in Scandanavia is due to much of the slave trade. Many of the Vikings raided the British Isles and Northern France like Normany and have taken many people as slaves to Iceland and to Scandanavia to Holland and to Russia too who was a part of the Viking Slave trade from the 8th to the 11th Centuries. Much of the Germanic DNA of England about 2/3 Viking and less than 1/3 is Anglo Saxon. The Anglo Saxon is about 5 percent of the male DNA of England. Now the female DNA, they do not believe that the germanic DNA had much influence on the gene pools anywhere in Western Europe. The Anglo Saxons that took over England were mainly men. The Vikings had bought over more women than the Anglo Saxons especially in North and Eastern Scotland especially the Orkneys and the Shetlands about up to 40 pecent of the male and female DNA was germanic and about 60 percent was Ancient Scottish or Pict. I have been researching this for years now because I have a love for History especially European. I am Irish on my Dad's side and Southern Italian on my mother's side. I like to think of myself like a Romano Britain for fun. Some English do not seem to like this too much but I think most of them are coming around to this idea. I think it would be more fun to be descendents of the people that built stonehenge than people that came over from Northern Germany and Scandanavia 100 to 1500 years ago. They believe that 80 percent of the population of the British Isles are descendants of the people who lived in the Isles in 12 to 15,000 BC. They believe there were only 4000 people living in the Isles then. Ireland still has no evidence of people then but they have evidence of the 1st people there around 8 to 9000 BC. I think they will find more evidence soon of earlier but they havent yet. People lives in Britain 40 to 50,000 years ago but they believe they they all left during the last ice age. between 22,000 bc to 15 to 13,000 bc that they all retreated back into France or they might have perished. They believed the British Isles had every few trees in the last ice age and that there were reindeer then. Similar to Lappland or the Tundra of Northern Scandanavia today and we know people thrive there. I think it is only a matter of time that they will find evidence of people living in the last ice age in the Isles but they have not found them yet. They only recently found evidence of people there going back to 15000 BC and before that it was 13,000 BC. They said they last people lived there 24,000 bc and now new evidence of people living there at the coldest of the ice age in the isles at 22,000bc when years before they said no one was there. I also believe the Neanderthals are our ancestors but they do not have the evidence yet but I do believe they will. Studying the dna of 7 neanderthals is not much to go by. They need to find more.