Bloody Dane

A term given to Red Heads. Around 1900, in a village close to the city of Liverpool, it was recorded that ‘if a redheaded man ventured to come to the door on New Year’s Eve as a ‘first-foot’, he was driven away and called a bloody Dane’.

did you see that man who walked into town this new years?
yeah he’s a bloody dane and needs to go!

by Bloody Dane January 23, 2022