Which one are the aryans?
Strictly speaking Aryans are Iranian, and possible some people left in northwest India and Pakistan (some of them still have pale skin and red hair). The Aryans migrated back to Asia after the indo-europeans had conquered europe.
So none of these identities qualify as Aryan (Teuton, Slav, Nord, Celtic, Roman, Saxon)?
Depends what you mean by the word. Back when the volkish movements started using that word in the 1930s, no one really knew where the Europeans had come from or what their origin was. One of the theories was that they had come from somewhere around Iran and that the proto-iranic people (like the Scythians) were the original Europeans. So they borrowed the Iranian native term for themselves (Aryan) and started using that.
Following world war 2 the idea that europeans had a common origin in Asia became (((unfashionable))) and the term Aryan got dropped in academic circles. Of course later in the 80s and 90s when genetic testing became available it was hard to deny the truth. Academics needed a term to refer to these people who colonised Europe, but Aryan was politically loaded and inaccurate, so they started calling them PIE (proto-indo-europeans).
Nowadays they're likely to be called "Yamna" or "Yamnaya" after one of the earliest known sites where PIE culture and remains can be found.
It's actually difficult to tell via a place, instead you have to use DNA and culture. Hell, some of the very same peoples have been called by different names depending on who they were trading/warring with.
Scythians, Gemanians(many tribes called by one tribe's name), Goths, Vikings, Celtics, and many, many others are/can be considered Aryan. They moved around a lot via ships and such for trade and conquest. The people's who encountered them considered them just and lawful, merciful to their conquered, very tall, blonde and/or red haired, incredibly muscular(the men) or incredibly beautiful(the women and men).
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