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Show Homogeneous People. Although their country presents a j great variety of climate, nature, and ! gerjral conditions of life, according to i its different degrees of latitude, tha Uwedes are a singularly homogeneoua-( homogeneoua-( people. With, the sole exception of f the Lapps, the nomadic reindeer herdsmen herds-men of the extreme North, they are all descended from the bame old Scandinavian Scandi-navian stock, unmixed with any foreign for-eign element. Thanks to their isolation, isola-tion, both geographical and linguistic the? have not been subjected to any foreign ekiiuinatioo and have beea but little influenced by foreign culture. cul-ture. They ha-ve possessed and inhabited in-habited their country In the Seandl-i Seandl-i uavlan peninsula for more than 5,000 years. Their language, with its sister sis-ter tongues, Norwegian and Danish, la an outcome of the old Norse, which a thousand years ago was common to the whole Scandinavian world. |