1. The latest historical and archeological studies have shown, that in the Viking Age the Saami population reached as far south as the Mälardal region in Sweden and districts north of Oslo in Norway (Larsson 1991, Zachrisson 1997). The sociolinguistic situation was characterized not only by a lack of stigmatisation of the Sami people, but by a “certain cultural symbiosis” (Zachrisson, 1997, 131) of the Scandinavians and the Sami, which did not prevent the spread of the Sami interference features into the Scandinavian languages (Kuzmenko 2005, 24-28).