Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61490
Date: 2008-11-09

--- On Sun, 11/9/08, Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> From: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 5:43 AM
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
> >
> ==========
>
> Saami People are not necessarily the first layer of
> Substrates in that
> region.
> And they are most probably not the first layer.
>
> A.

Given that their language has a substrate, they're definitely not the first but the linguistic frontier between Saami and Norse was in C.-S. Scandinavia in Viking times