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SWEDISH HISTORY PROFESSOR DR. SWEN LAGERBIRING THE ANCESTORS OF THE IKIN AND NORTHERN EUROPE ARE TURKISH Did Swedish History Professor Swen Lagerbring write that the Ikin were Turkish? Is this true? Yes, this claim is true. Professor Sven Lagerbring, an 18th-century historian considered the founding father of Swedish historiography, stated in his linguistic and historical studies published in 1764 that the ancestors of the Swedes and Odin, the chief god in Scandinavian mythology, were of Turkish origin. +1 Lagerbring's main arguments for these claims are as follows: Odin and His Companions: Lagerbring states, "Our ancestors are the Turks who were the companions of Odin. We have sufficient evidence on this matter..." thus basing the origin of the Scandinavians on Central Asia. +1 Mythophysical and Historical Sources: He did not produce this thesis alone; he based it on the ancient Scandinavian epics (Edda) written by the 13th-century Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson, which describe Odin's migration from a region called "Tyrkland" (Turkic land) to Scandinavia. + Linguistic Similarities: Lagerbring examined the grammatical and vocabulary similarities between Swedish and Turkish and argued that there are hundreds of words common to both languages ​​(for example, "lake"). What Does Modern Historical Science Say? These views, written by Sven Lagerbring in the 18th century, are more of an early hypothesis and mythological interpretation than a historical reality. Modern anthropology, genetics, and linguistic research have definitively shown that the Vikings and modern Scandinavian peoples originated from Indo-European Germanic peoples; and that the languages ​​they spoke are related to the Germanic language family, not to Turkic languages. Therefore, these texts are considered not as a proven direct lineage in modern scholarship, but rather as an interesting part of Swedish historiography and a mythological analysis.