Martin Rundkvist on Nostr: A funny thing that few people outside the specialism realise. "Sámi" is a pretty ...

A funny thing that few people outside the specialism realise.

"Sámi" is a pretty wide ethnic category that includes groups who don't understand each others' languages.

This means that when you talk about the Sámi in contrast to Norwegians and Swedes during the 1st Millennium, you need to use a higher-level umbrella term for the latter too, usually "Germans".

Because the equivalent of "Norse", Sw. "nordbor", includes the Sámi themselves.

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