On the possibility of a sámi influence on the Scandinavian languages once again

Abstract

New arguments concerning Sámi influence on the Scandinavian languages have been offered. The possibility of the spreading of Sámi interference into the predominantly Scandinavian areas is confirmed not only by the Old Scandinavian sources in favor of the absence of Sámi stigmatization in the Scandinavian society, but also by the data of population genetics about the distribution of the “Sámish” Y-DNA-haplogroup N1c and mtDNA-haplogroups U5 and V among Swedes and Norwegians. Changes in the population structure due to two pest pandemies in the 6th–8th centuries (‘Justinian Pest’) and the 14th–15th centuries (‘Black Death’) in Scandinavia, which affected the central and northern parts of the Scandinavian peninsula to a much lesser extent, may have contribute to the spreading of Sámi interference, as well.