Here's a question I've never found
an answer to. Can anybody give the exact etymological link between Skåne,
the province of southern Sweden and Scandinavia ? Yes, I know
it goes through Latin -- and that's all the dictionaries tell me. Is this via
ancient Latin, or is it mediaeval Latin? And -- oh, is it possible -- can a
meaning be pulled out of the word?
Skåne is the Swedish part of the
Germanic homeland. It could, in fact, be the Germanic homeland, with Jutland the intervening
islands being outliers.