Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> From: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 4:43 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Smit"
> <cuergomamotorist@...>
>
>
> >
> > It is well known that in Scandinavia there is no
> substratum of
> > pre-Germanic tribes.
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>
> I'm not so sure about this claim.
> But I suppose Torsten can give insight.
>
> A.

The Saami people once reached to S. Scandinavia but I don't if and how well their substrate show up. They seem to have lived in a relatively close relationship with the Gmc Scandivians according to the sagas and there was intermarriage recorded in the sagas