Furthest possible extent of the Sami people?

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OTL early Sami people lived in the Solovetsky islands and in the nowadays Arkhangelsk region and the big part of Karelia
 
Didn't at one point the Sami inhabited all of Scandinavia before the expansion of the Germanic people and the Baltic Finns respectively?
 
Didn't at one point the Sami inhabited all of Scandinavia before the expansion of the Germanic people and the Baltic Finns respectively?

Not all of Scandinavia. The areas south of the Swedish lakes was germanic already by the time of the Romans... the Sami population was the hunter-gatherers that lived to far north for the Germanic argicultural livestyle to thrive yet, so somewhere north of the Swedish lakes was their southenmost extend in Scandinavia proper.

As for Wikipedia, it have this to say about it

How far south the Sami extended in the past has been debated among historians and archeologists for many years. The Norwegian historian Yngvar Nielsen, commissioned by the Norwegian government in 1889 to determine this question to settle contemporary questions of Sami land rights, concluded that the Sami had lived no farther south than Lierne in Nord-Trøndelag county until around 1500, when they started moving south, reaching the area around Lake Femund in the 18th century.[29] This hypothesis is still accepted among many historians, but has been the subject of scholarly debate in the 21st century. In recent years, several archaeological finds indicate a Sami presence in southern Norway in the Middle Ages, and southern Sweden,[22] including finds in Lesja, in Vang in Valdres and in Hol and Ål in Hallingdal.[30] Proponents of the Sami interpretations of these finds assume a mixed population of Norse and Sami people in the mountainous areas of southern Norway in the Middle Ages.[31]
 
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