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How Germanic languages spread from Sweden across Europe
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How Germanic languages spread from Sweden across Europe

So, a sweeping new study suggests that people who arrived in southern Sweden from the Baltic region around 4,000 years ago brought an early form of Germanic with them. By combining linguistic and archaeological evidence with DNA from thousands of ancient people, researchers traced how the language spread through Scandinavia and into central and western Europe. The findings also reveal a later return migration from northern Germany to Denmark and southern Sweden around 1,500 years ago, around the time Old Norse emerged. And here's the fascinating twist: these newcomers may have contributed substantially to Viking-era ancestry and help explain cultural and linguistic links between Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon Britain.
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