I should quote the following important part from the link I presented
in my last post:

"Låt oss börja med frågan om det äldre finsk-ugriska språk. Vilket
det kan vara får vi en fingervisning om genom just sydsamiskan. Detta
samespråk skiljer sig markant från nordsamiskan och från de samiska
språk som talas i Nordnorge och Nordfinland – de tillhör alla den
östersjöfinska språkgruppen. Sydsamiskan däremot är släkt med
volgafinskan – en grupp finsk-ugriska språk som talas i området
nordost om Volgas krök och Uralbergen."

The south sami language is obviously a candidate -- among others --
of being the original, dominating language of Scandinavia. Actually,
I live and have been raised in a south sami area, so I am -- to some
extent -- familiar with the language (even though I do not speak nor
understand it).
Since the south sami language is more or less oppressed by the north
sami ones, there is not much knowledge about it. Personally, I
believe that much ofthe gaps of the Germanic etymology can be filled
with south sami elements.

Here is a link to a site where one can listen to a south sami
language sample:
http://www.umu.se/daum/dialekter/socknar/sydsamiska.htm

(Some useless info: In high school, I had a physics teacher called
Odd who was of south sami origin. He is the guy on the left in this
pic: http://www.samiskaveckan.sapmi.net/bjornen003_RJ.JPG
I remember him saying at his first lesson: "I am a sami, I am not
from Spain.")

Skål ta mej faan,
/Jens Persson, aka Arnljotr