Re: Odp: Desatemized Germanic

From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 6445
Date: 2001-03-08

--- In cybalist@..., Håkan Lindgren <h5@...> wrote:
> Swedish after the liberation from the Danes and Norwegian in the
19th
> century seem to me perfect examples languages "flowing backwards".
>
> > Torsten
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>
> Excuse me, but what are you talking about here?
Sweden's "liberation from the Danes
> and Norwegian in the 19th century"? This doesn't fit into any of
the history I remember
> from school. We have not been under Danish rule since the Kalmar
Union was broken
> in 1521.
>
> Håkan