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To: Charles Henrickson
Ethnically most of the Finns and all of the Estonians are from the same stock as all other Scandinavians. The Saami are "different", but they're not Asiatics either.

Finland, Estonia and Hungary were all conquered by Mongolian and Turkish people in the early Middle Ages under conditions which brought about a linguistic change.

The Saami are a remnant (80,000+ people) of what may have been Europe's first population of modern humans. After the Black Plague which killed 90% of the Norse people in Norway, the Coastal Saami were enticed to take up Norse farms (presumably so taxes could be paid). 10% or less of the Saami suffered from the Plague although they live in an area where the dominant lifeform is the rat (and other rodents, e.g. lemmings). Their language is quite ancient ~ maybe more than we realize.

19 posted on 03/19/2004 6:19:35 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
So you're saying that the Finns are *ethnically* Scandinavian but not *linguistically*. OK. I know for sure that the Finnish language and even the names are *much* different from Swedish/Norwegian/Danish.
21 posted on 03/19/2004 8:11:10 AM PST by Charles Henrickson ("Karl Henriksson," Swedish)
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