Guess I wasn't too clear. I do agree with you about isolated tribes perhaps producing the TALL guys and everything being relative. I'm 6'2" and considered short in family.

Thanks for the good links. Am still curious about any Norse links about their height.

From my study of records, am very skeptical of thinking that people of the past were somehow different than at present. By this I mean in their psychology, abstract thinking, and ability to problem solve.

Am somewhat more flexible on physical factors, but think that in the past the gene pool was such that there was much more variation in expression; both in mainstream populations and in isolated ones.