Björk
Björk in 2005, photo by PrPhotos
Birth Name: Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Place of Birth: Reykjavik, Iceland
Date of Birth: November 21, 1965
Ethnicity: Icelandic
Björk is an Icelandic singer and actress. She is the daughter of Guðmundur Gunnarsson, an electrician and union leader, and Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, an activist. She has a son with her former husband Þór Eldon, and a daughter with her former partner, American artist Matthew Barney.
Aside from Icelandic, she has said that she has distant Irish ancestry. It is not clear if this Irish ancestry has been verified/documented.
Some people on the internet have said that Björk could be of indigenous Inuit or Sami ethnicity, but there is no evidence of this being the case. Inuit or Sami people are not common in Iceland.
Björk’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to her seventh great-grandfather, Jón “Eldri” Þorgilsson.
Björk’s paternal grandfather is Gunnar Guðmundsson (the son of Guðmundur Jóhannesson and Kristín Gunnarsdóttir). Björk’s great-grandfather Guðmundur was the son of Jóhannes Guðmundsson and Ingibjörg Eysteinsdóttir. Kristín was the daughter of Gunnar Kristófersson and Kristín Guðmundsdóttir.
Björk’s paternal grandmother was Hallfríður Guðmundsdóttir (the daughter of Guðmundur “Briskó” Jónsson and Rósa Bachmann Jónsdóttir). Björk’s great-grandfather Guðmundur was the son of Jón Jónsson and Vilborg Guðlaugsdóttir. Rósa was the daughter of Jón Bachmann Jósefsson and Hallfríður Einarsdóttir.
Björk’s maternal grandfather was Haukur Freygarð Guðjónsson (the son of Guðjón Guðjónsson and Sveinbjörg Jónsdóttir). Guðjón was the son of Guðjón. He was later put into the foster care of Sveinn Gestsson and Una Þórarinsdóttir. Sveinbjörg was the daughter of Jón Kristjánsson and Geirlaug Sveinsdóttir.
Björk’s maternal grandmother was named Guðrún Ásmundsdóttir (born Helgudóttir, the daughter of an unknown father, and of Helga Guðbjörg Helgadóttir). Guðrún was adopted by Ásmundur Gestsson and Sigurlaug Pálsdóttir. Helga was the daughter of Helgi Andrésson and Helga Björnsdóttir.
Björk’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to her fifth great-grandmother, Olufa Nicolausdóttir.
Sources: Genealogy of Bjork – http://gw.geneanet.org
Genealogies of Björk (focusing on her father’s side) – http://mediasvc.ancestry.com
https://www.geni.com
Obituary of Björk’s maternal granduncle, Andrés Ásmundsson – http://www.mbl.is
Björk’s maternal great-grandfather, Guðjón Guðjónsson, on the 1890 Icelandic census – http://manntal.is
Björk’s maternal great-grandmother, Sveinbjörg Jónsdóttir, on the 1901 Icelandic census – http://manntal.is
https://scandinaviafacts.com/why-do-scandinavians-have-asian-eyes/
Clearly she’s Chinese
Many Scandinavians have those eyes and that bone structure. But since many of them have blue eyes or light hair, people don’t ask questions. The only reason some people guess that Bjork is Asian, is because of her black hair and dark eyes, though by themselves these are common traits across all Europe.
Her eyes look actually greenish and I dont think she has natural black hair. Even though her family has lived in Iceland for many generations, this does not rule out that her Scandinavian ancestors had Mongoloid ancestry.
If she has any (relatively) recent Asian ancestry, it’d most likely be via Greenland given the country’s history. If it’s more distant (or non-existent), well, it’d almost not show up on her phenotypically. While certainly not common, it’s also not shocking to see epicanthal on far-northern Europeans.
A long story short, I guess what I’m saying is that it wouldn’t be shocking to find she has no relatively recent Asian genetic input.
You don’t know how we Europeans are made we can see black hair and eyes in North Europe also not only in the South and in the East.
Northern Europeans are mainly brown haired and eyed not blond and blue eyed like the stereotype shows and force us to believe in like you do.
You always say craps.
Ahaha, you’re pathetic. “Northern Europeans” are NOT “mainly brown haired and eyed”, expecially all the Germanic people. People from British Isles are also mostly blue-eyed, though darker-haired on average. You can’t pretend Northeners you idolize are kin to you.
HahahahahaAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you’re so disconnected to the world the average Northern Euros have dark hair and eyes, Austrians and Germans are CENTRAL EUROS NOT NORTHERN you ——- moron—- don’t even know the basic geographic info being you a ——- ——— you aren’t able to see and understand anything.
Comical a —– like ya who fake to be Finnish who call dark a Euro like me.
Sorry for — ——– accept to be —– you can’t be —— and not even —– lol.
“Average” Northern Euros do NOT have “dark hair and eyes wtf. Germanic people include also Dutch, Swedes, Norwegian and Danes, if you don’t know. A monkey is more intelligent than you.
A brain-damaged ————- is way more smart than you everybody here in Europe see Northern Euros have mainly brown hair and eyes which is a DARK color and gosh Dutch and Scandinavians aren’t Germanics.
Move ya —— ass and explore the world instead to stay locked in your lil’ backward village.
Dutch and Scandinavians aren’t Germanics…what are they then?
Capra, studia.
They have only a part of Germanic like some Slavs in fact they have different faces compared to Germans and Austrians the real and fully Germanics you have to study, goat!
Scandinavians are racially Nordic/Norse and Dutch a mix of Nordic and Baltid.
Goat!
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Germanic-peoples
When I first saw her, I did assume she was part Asian. Some Nordic and Slavic people do have a somewhat Eurasian appearance.
I also thought she was kind of Asian