Subject: Re: Marine 4point?<br/>
Date: Feb 22, 2003 @ 12:48<br/>
Author: anorak222 &lt;listen@wschwanke.de&gt; (&quot;anorak222 &lt;listen@...&gt;&quot; &lt;listen@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1624157193">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, jesniel@i... wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Bornholm has been Danish since 950.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>Naive question: Since when did Denmark, Sweden, Norway (Iceland) exist as separate entities? Is it not true that there was a Norse community? kingdom? until the early Middle Ages?<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; The Bornholmers feel very much Danish, even though their dialect is related<br/>
&gt; to Swedish.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>I was under the impression that the Nordic languages form a continuum on the dialect level, and only the standard languages are really separate.<br/>
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Regards</div>