Re: A dialogue in Old Urianian.

Den 22. feb. 2007 kl. 10.47 skrev Jörg Rhiemeier:
>
> I don't think there have ever been Uralic speakers in southern
> Scandinavia
> or Denmark, let alone the Netherlands or even Scotland.  The spread of
> Uralic was roughly contemporaneous with that of Indo-European, and
> I doubt
> it reached those areas.
Well, Samic belongs to the Uralic group, and historically it's been
spoken at least as far south as Gudbandsdalen. I don't think the
timing of these migrations or disseminations are so well-established
yet. None of them are just one big vawe, there are several. And I
think an early Uralic population is a good alternative for a
substratum of Germanic. After all our Germanic forefathers had to get
their initial stress from somewhere.

My ideas about Urianian prehistory is a little foggy yet, but I think
they may have been coastal pirates for a while, raiding on the
eastern British coast before reaching the realms of the Gaajans, and
possibly from bases in or/and around latter day Frisia.

LEF

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