A cikin farkon rubuce-rubucen da aka yi sun mamaye yankunan arctic da subarctic da kuma tsakiyar ɓangaren tsibirin har zuwa kudancin Dalarna, Sweden. Suna magana da yaren Sami, wanda ba na Indo-Turai ba ne na dangin Uralic wanda ke da alaƙa da Finnish da Estonian. Mazaunan farko na tsibirin sun kasance Norwegian a gabar yammacin Norway, Danes a cikin abin da yanzu shine kudancin Sweden da kudu maso gabashin Norway, da Svear a yankin Mälaren da kuma babban ɓangaren gabashin gabar gabashin Scandinavian Peninsula an riga an zauna a kudu.
Tsohon Norse