LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE for the HYPOTHESIS
Hugo Grotius, Dutch humanist,
De origine gentium Americanarum, 1625
A complicated theory of the New World peoples based on etymological evidence and comparison of customs and religion. ...
Grotius argued that the northern peoples were descended from the "German" or, more specifically, Scandinavians who island hopped across the North Atlantic from Iceland to Greenland to North America. He argued this on the basis of such etymological "evidence" as the similarity of place name endings. (i.e.,) Island and Groenland in Germanic languagers, Quaxltlan and Ocotlan in America. Another argument É for Grotius [was that] Indian marriage customs were similar to those of the ancient Germans [and] there had to be a connection between the two groups.
... Hugo Grotius ...[ used] etymology and the evidence of customs to establish the decent of some Indians from the Lapps.
Comment: A modern hypothesis is that the Albans, who fled from Scotland ahead of the Viking, went to Iceland. When the Vikings followed to Iceland, the Albans divided. Some sailed to the northern forests of Norway and some sailed to America. Modern discovery of similar clothes for both Lapps and Indians can be added to the list of supporting evidence. (Paine, 2004)
