Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

--- 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, 5:49 AM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Smit"
> <cuergomamotorist@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 12:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] oldest places- and watername in
> Scandinavia
>
>
> >
> > But when did the Saami arrive in the north
> Scandinavia?
> > I suppose that they arrive in the beginning of the
> era,
> > from Finnland and originally from the Asia. The
> arrival is
> > late, so they cannot make any linguistic influence.
> >
> =======
>
> This is a very late datation.
> In any case, it seems they arrived _before_ Germanic people
> did.
>
> A.

Actually we don't know where they arrived from. Their present language arrived c. 2,000 BCE?? or so. But we don't know where their substrate, and original, language was or where it was from.