Re: Asian Migration to Scandinavia

From: tgpedersen
Message: 61053
Date: 2008-10-23

> There were supposedly Irish monks, according to some, but I imagine
> most got sacrificed to Thor pretty quickly. But on the way to
> Iceland, the pre-Icelanders did mix with Gaelic speakers in Scotland
> and with speakers of Pictish or whatever was speken in the Orkneys
> and Shetland,


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Icelandic_language#Toponyms

> and Faeroes, if they were inhabited.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_language#History


Torsten