Yeah, uh, the Gascon and Basque fishermen used to fish the Grand Banks, and that came about because of the uptick in demand for fish during the Middle Ages, I think that detail was due to the "eat fish on Friday" rule the Pope had made to alleviate famine somewhere. The fisheries kept moving on them (sometimes that's attributed to, you guessed it, climate change) and they went more and more distance from You-rope. My speculation is that the Basques are a language isolate because they originated in North America, possibly settling in Iberia as recently as the 5th century AD.
Basques are a language isolate because they originated in North America, possibly settling in Iberia as recently as the 5th century AD.
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And that makes my obsessive nagging belief that Trojans migrated from the eastern Baltic and Greeks from the western Baltic to seem almost reasonable.
Still your fault though. You made me read that book.