That far north, it’s gotta be dwarves.
What race is it that claimed elves taught their people their language way back before written history? I think I remember reading somewhere that JRR tolkien patterned his elven language after these peoples’ language. Seems to me they were people in the far north. but it coulda been the dwarven language too. I can’t remember.
Seems like there’s an awful lot of coincidences in our legends of the north. Take for instance our story of santa claus and the elves. Santa dresses like a lapplander, and has reindeer like them as well. And he has a team of expert craftsmen that are midgets. The lapplanders have a high incidence of short people. Tolkien’s concept of a dwarf was a short sturdy race with exceptional knowledge of rocks, minerals, metals, and tunneling, mining, blacksmithing, forging, and manufacturing...basically all things metal related. In other words, they were santa’s elves. these midget craftsmen created fantastic awe inspiring trinkets, jewelry, tools, and gadgets and santa was the traveling merchant/salesman that worked for the elves...that’s my version of the legend.
Then you post this thread on discoveries of what are effectively pre historic mansions or maybe workshops in the far north. Dude, that’s too many coincidences. I’m going to hypothesize the lapplanders are descended from an ancient advanced culture of midget geniuses...aka tolkien’s dwarves, aka santa’s elves.