what about the explanation of Dirhams in scandinavia?
what about the physical anthropological eveidence, genetic and skull nests of "litoral race"?
what about the Etruscan link to the runes that show more southerly origins?
what about the biased research up until the late 20th century, by extremist scholars and German "Nationalist" scholars such as H. Wirth and R. Elliot that dont even mention C. Asian runes?
what about the raw materials that were found in scadinavia of bronze and copper (which were scarce resources in the region)?
etc. etc. etc.
Europe was still wiping their boogers on their sleeves, while the east was using developing algebra and astonomy...
why is it there a xenophobia towards the east? the west is still obsessed with "orientalist" views and predjudice, any scholarly or acedemic study should be done with absolute objectivity....
maybe the runes were used by all, and used phonetically with each culture and language, no?
the modern turkish language uses a slightly modified latin alphabet, does that mean turks are latin or vice versa?
trade routes always extended from the east to the west...... (sorry europe, but your not that special)