From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61488
Date: 2008-11-09
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>> >
>> > It is well known that in Scandinavia there is no
>> substratum of
>> > pre-Germanic tribes.
>> ======
>>
>> 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
>
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Saami People are not necessarily the first layer of Substrates in that
region.
And they are most probably not the first layer.
A.