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Average Heights and Life Expectancies in Northern Europe
Estimated from Adult Male Skeletons
(If the columns don't line up when you view this table, try
copying it then pasting it into Notepad or Word, and view it
using a non-proportional font such as Courier.)

Avg. Avg. Avg.
Height Height Life Sample
Era Place (cm) (in) Expect. Size Source
9-11th C Iceland 172.3 67.8" 60 22 Steffensen
(1958)
9-17th C Iceland 172.2 67.8" 60 71 Steffensen
(1958)
10-11th C Sweden 176.0 69.3" 71 8 Gilberg (1976)
11-12th C Iceland 172.0 67.7" 59 27 Steffensen
(1958)
11-17th C Iceland 171.0 67.3" 56 16 Steffensen
(1958)
12th C Norway 170.2 67.0" 54 42 Hanson (1992)
12th C Britain 168.4 66.3" 48 233 Munter (1928)
12-13th C Norway 172.2 67.8" 60 * Huber (1968)
12-16th C Iceland 175.2 69.0" 69 6 Steffensen
(1958)
13th C Denmark 172.2 67.8" 60 31 Boldsen (1984)
13th C Sweden 174.3 68.6" 66 66 Gejvall (1960)
13-14th C England 171.8 67.6" 59 * Huber (1968)

Table above from:

Steckel, Richard H. Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial
Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern
Europe. NBER Working Paper Series 8542. Cambridge, MA: National
Bureau of Economic Research. October 2001. Abstract:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w8542 Text:
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/ar...onth/pdf/w8542.
pdf

This article also has average heights and life expectancy data
for later than this, but this was the part I focussed on because
of my interest in Viking Age history.

Sources cited in table are:

Boldsen, Jesper. "A statistical evaluation of the basis for
predicting stature from lengths of long bones in European
populations." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 65
(1984), 305-311.

Gejvall, Nils Gustaf. Westerhus; Medieval Population and Church
in the Light of Skeletal Remains. Lund: H. Ohlssons boktr., 1960.

Gilberg, Rolf, "Stengade-vikingernes skeletter." In Jorgen
Skaarup (ed.), Stengade II: en langelandsk Gravplads med grave
fra romerskjernalder og vikingetid. Rudkobing: Langelands
Museum, 1976. Pp. 220-27.

Hanson, C. "Population-Specific Stature Reconstruction for
Medieval Trondheim, Norway." International Journal of
Osteoarchaeology 2 (1992), 289-95.

Huber, Neil M., "The Problem of Stature Increase: Looking from
the Past to the Present". In D.R. Brothwell (ed.), The Skeletal
Biology of Earlier Human Populations. Pegamon Press, Oxford,
1968. Pp. 67-102.

Munter, A. Heinrich "A study of the lengths of the long bones of
the arms and legs in man, with special reference to Anglo-Saxon
Skeletons" Biometrika XXVIII (1928), 258-294.

Steffensen, Jon, Stature as a Criterion of the Nutritional Level
of Viking Age Icelanders. Arbok hins islenzka fornleifafelags,
fylgirit. 1958.