Re: Odp: Desatemized Germanic

--- 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