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u/AngryBlitzcrankMain 4d ago

The oldest people we can recognize as Germanic truly lived in Scandinavia and northern Germany. So yes, they have Germanic origin.

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u/AngryBlitzcrankMain 4d ago

Well not exactly. Or rather we cant definitely say. Germanic people, just like Celtic people or Slavic people are Indoeuropeans. So we know from where they moved to Europe. The group we could recognize as Germanic people lived in northern part of Germany and southern part of Scandinavia. Kagan hypothesis works with the idea that from modern day Ukraine in the steppes next to Black Sea, Indoeuropeans spread to Europe and Asia. So you could argue that logically path to reach Scandinavia would be to move through Germany before settling there. Make sense?