| I'm pretty sure the Finnish language is not considered a Scandinavian language, even though Finland is part of the Scandinavian region. As I remember, Finnish and Hungarian form a very distinct language group, quite apart from the Scandinavian and Indo-European groups. Still from my not-perfect memory, a lot of research has gone into the origins and development of the two languages.
Don't know anything about Icelandic, but based on Denmark and Iceland having relatively close historical ties, I would guess it's considered at least related to the Scandinavian language group.
And now you've got me wondering where the Samish(sp)/Lapp language fits into all this. Interesting stuff, languages.
And to get back on topic, evil man would be translated as "ond mand" or perhaps "den onde mand" in Danish. |
