Nordic peoples

Nordic people may refer to:

• the population inhabiting the Nordic countries—mostly a subgroup of the Germanic people that speak the North Germanic languages, but often the Finns and others Finno-Ugric peoples, are included also
• the Germanic peoples as a whole
• the Nordic race, was one of the putative sub-races into which some late 19th to mid 20th century anthropologists divided the European population; covered by the Nordic theory and related concepts such as Nordish race; regarded as a branch of the Aryan race; regarded by the Nazis as the master race; a population that in the late 19th and early 20th century was regarded as synonymous with what are today called the Germanic people
• Norsemen, native speakers of one of the North Germanic languages; those from Scandinavia during the 8th to 11th centuries are also called Vikings