Re: Question to Peter Daniels former Re: Related languages (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: I.E_Johansson (inger_e.johansson_at_telia.com)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:55:46 GMT

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> skrev i meddelandet
news:422F60C9.3837@worldnet.att.net...
> benlizross wrote:
> >
> > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > >
> > > I.E_Johansson wrote:
>
> > > > Well in soc.culture.nordic we have had a lot of discussions
> > > > about the groups in Scandinavia before 1000 AD especially some Finns
are
> > > > trying to make believe that the Kvens and the Finns must be of same
origin
> > > > because both groups today speak a Finno-Urgic language and starting
from
> > > > that point they try to use the old Roman, old Greek and old Eastern
sources
> > > > speaking of the Kvens together with excatation results showing at
least that
> > > > the written sources for the Kvens to be correct, as proof for the
Finn's
> > > > History.
> > > >
> > > > That's the reason behind my question.
> > >
> > > I've never heard of "Kven." I don't see why it would matter, either.
>
> > Even if it doesn't matter, a quick Google Groups search reveals that the
> > Kvens are a Finnish minority in Norway.
>
> Hmm, that doesn't seem to agree with Inger's posting.

Well the Kvens don't agree either. Remember Otthar who told King Alfred
about the voyage along the Norwegian coast? He was a Kven and he most
certainly wasn't a Finn. The Kvens had nothing what so ever to do with the
Finns before 650 AD and very little before 1100 AD. For reading of Prime
Sources I suggest Adam of Bremen as a good start. There are many earlier
then him but he is enough to contradict the Google suggestion. So please
don't tell the Kvens that someone apart from the Finns who tries to steal
their history, they are known but not well known, call them Finns. They
doesn't even look like Finns in any of the Ancient and Medieval
descriptions.

Inger E
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net

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