Show homogeneous out people although their country presents present a great variety of climate nature and geri gerar ral aal a conditions of life according to its different degrees degree of latitude the th edes are fl a singularly homogeneous people with the sole exception ot of the lapps the nomadic reindeer herdsmen of the extreme north they are all dec descended ended from the barne bame ol 01 old d scandinavian stock unmixed with any foreign element clement thanks to their isolation both geographical and linguistic they have not been subjected to any foreign domination and have been but little influenced by foreign culture they haie bae possessed and inhabited ha tilted their country in the scandinavian penn peni laula alb tor for more inore than years cars language with its slater sister tongues norwegian alq an danish la Is an outcome of the old norse which a thousand years ago was cour common nion to the whole hole scandinavian world |