Arguments for a Middle Eastern origin to Scandinavian cultures:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hamlets_mill/hamletmill01.htm
Hamet's Mill by De Santillana & Von Dechend traces elements of Shakespeare's Hamlet back to Norway, Iceland and Denmark, then to Finland,
and from there back to Persia / Iran, and finally India.

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India origin of Fin & Samoyed (http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/connections/Western-Asia.php):
It is also known that Hindu settlers left India for Siberia, where they founded a kingdom, with Bajrapur as its capital.
Colonel Tod continues, "The annals of the Yadus of Jaisalmer state that long before King Vikrama they held dominion from Ghazni to Samarkhand. They established themselves in those regions after the Great War of the Mahabharata and were not pushed back to the Indus until the rise of Islam.

It has been shown that the Bactrians were an Indian people and that the Indian migrations extended to Siberia and the northernmost parts of Asia. This is evident from the fact that the descendants of these Vedic Aryans are still to be found there. The Samoyedes and Tchoudes of Siberia and Finland were originally known as the Shyamayadus and the Joudes of India. The languages of the two former races have a strong affinity and are classed as Indo-Germanic by Klaproth, the author of the book "Asia Polyglotta." Mr. Remusat traces these tribes to Central Asia, the exact place where the Yadu dynasty long held sway. Shyama is a name of Krishna and Krishna is known as the Lord of the Yadus and this branch of His family was known as the Shyama Yadus.

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Elsewhere in Medieval literature the region of Scythia is sometimes alluded to as the ultimate Norse homeland in the Danish and Icelandic sagas.
(Oppenheimer: Origins of the British)

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Origins of the Swedish People in Thrace 2500 BCE - http://www.osterholm.info/swedes.html

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Scandinavian Ancestry Tracing Roots to Azerbaijan by Thor Heyerdahl -
http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/82_folder/82_articles/82_heyerdahl.html

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Orjan Svensson:
Viking-Phoenician Links - http://britam.org/now/now257.html

Hebrew-Phoenicians in Scandinavia - http://britam.org/now/595Now.html

A Similarity between Scandinavian Languages and Aramaic - http://britam.org/now/907Now.html
This feature of enclitic definite articles also is present in Romanian and in ARAMAIC

Orjan has conducted original research proving that Ancient "Runic Inscriptions in Sweden were written in the Hebrew and Aramaic languages or in dialects similar to them.
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesOrjan.html

[See also http://home.earthlink.net/~ekerilaz/princess.html - suggests that runic script originated with the Scythian Sacae = Sakai.]

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Sumerian and Finn-Ugor god names compared to Sumerian - http://users.cwnet.com/millenia/FUgods.htm

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Squid vs. Thor: Teuthid Imagery in Norse Mythology By Adam Eli Clem, 2003 - http://www.tonmo.com/articles/midgard.php

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Similarity of boats in rock art in Egypt and Scandinavia:
http://www.egyptorigins.org/rockboats.htm
http://www.egyptorigins.org/rockboats2.htm

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Scandinavian rock-carvings interpreted - http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~catshaman/in/indexNA.htm
and: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~catshaman/23erils2/0placenames.htm
Linked from: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~catshaman/in/indexAE.htm

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To go farther,
Eden in the East - Stephen Oppenheimer 1998 gives similarities of Borneo and Southeast Asia to Scandinavia (pages 88-89 and 154 + Saami 211)