Re: A dialogue in Old Urianian.

Hallo!

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:45:35 +0100, Lars Finsen wrote:

> BTW, one problem with the Uralic substrate hypothesis is that I think
> the Urianians originally came from Scotland. It's only about 150 kms
> of sea from the north of Scotland to the south of Uriania in my
> conworld, and from the northernmost Orkneys it's only 50-60 kms. (The
> Shetlands and Faroes don't exist in my conworld.) From the western
> coast of Norway to eastern Uriania it's at least 300 kms, which is
> rather long for a strong influx of early iron age sea voyagers. But
> has Uralic ever been spoken in Scotland? I do think parts or all of
> Norway once was Uralic speaking, and possibly the same is the case
> with Denmark and maybe even the Netherlands.
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.

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