Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "The Geography of Lapland explained" video.

@ahkkariq7406 Germanic was partially developed within certain areas in southern Norway. The Nordic bronze age culture developed as s result of the mixture of farmers and hunter gatherers in southern Scandinavia, including some areas in southern Norway.
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@amadeuz819 Neither the Sami nor the Norse where the first to arrive in most of Norway or Sweden. You're right that Germanic culture developed in the Nordic bronze age culture that had its core areas in the south, and it was a result of a mix of the local hunter gatherers of the area and the farmers, with a touch of the Indo-European horse riders too. Both the Sami and the Norse displaced or assimilated the original populations in Sweden and Norway as they expanded their territories.
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@amadeuz819 Seriously, the generally accepted theories are not based on written records that the church could remove. Instead they're based on archaeological evidence... And no, neither the Finno-Ugric nor the Germanic peoples lived here first. Sweden and Norway where both mostly populated by other people before either group expanded into the area.
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 @ahkkariq7406 No, Germanic originates in the bronze age, not the iron age. The language familys origin was the Nordic bronze age culture. Not the iron age cultures.
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@CarreRan_ He's actually right about neither the Sami nor us Norwegians where the first in Norway (although both groups have quite a bit of DNA from the first peoples here) The first people in Sweden where actually black skinned and blue eyed hunter gatherers according to DNA tests. And in Norway they where also hunter gatherers that lived a lifestyle similar to the Inuits in Greenland, hunting seal etc gradually making use of the land being made available. In Sweden there where a lot of cultural interaction due to the area being easier to travel through, and people lived all over since it was easy to displace s people and also easy to settle somewhere new when you where semi-nomadic anyway, just fighting over the best fishing locations till other cultures brought in farming etc. In Norway people where isolated from technological progress for a long, long time and essentially lived like Inuits for most of that time, although some animal husbandry might have been adopted near the end. The Norse moved in with farming, better boats, metal and a warrior culture and the Sami with better hunting, skies etc. Both groups where assimilating the locals.
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0:52 The southern border in Trøndelag is somewhat disputed in this regard. There's no doubt that they've lived in partd of Trøndelag since before us Norwegians did. But first of all, there where s previous people here before either of us. And secondly we and they picked different areas to settle from the start, both due to having different preferences and due to the Norse having a military and population advantage due to our farming and metal works and of course warrior culture. 1:07 Not the north kingdoms. The Norse kingdoms. Norse and north are two very different things. 1:24 That's news to me. Although it's possible that this is something people associate with the word further north... But "Lapp" is definitely a exonym instead of a endonym, and should be avoided for that reason as well. 1:41 While your previous map included tók much in the south this one includes too little. The Sami people populated the inland areas before we did. Our ancestors where a seafaring people of farmers, displacing the previous hunter gatherers of the region along the coast, but the Sami where better hunters and later raindeer herders so they settled lands further away from the coast long before we or anyone else did. The parts of the coast that wasn't suitable for agriculture could be settled by either of us first as both cultures practiced fishery. Our ship building technology gave us a edge though early on, although the two groups merged along the coast into essentially modern Norwegians for the most part, although some still identify as sea Sami people. 2:36 Fell? Do you mean fjell? Fjell is the Norwegian word for mountain. 5:32 I think you're mixing up Sweden and Norway here. Sweden got the mining, Norway the windmills, remember we're in the windy side of the Norwegian mountains, exposed to the winds from the sea.
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