title: Rediscovering Russian-Scandinavian relations: The role of medieval Russian waterways
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metadata.value: Frank, Thomas
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-04T12:38:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-04T12:38:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Frank T. Rediscovering Russian-Scandinavian relations: The role of medieval Russian waterways. Scandinavian Philology, 2020, vol. 18, issue 2, pp. 409–427.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2020.213
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23433
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article challenges the Scandinavian silence of medieval Russian-Scandinavian
  relations and presents a field study (2017) of the medieval waterway Put’ iz varjag
  v greki (the route from the Varangians to the Greeks) as a key to reopen awareness
  and provide new knowledge of these influential relations. The article more specifically
  argues that in order to understand the cultural and religious transformations in
  Scandinavia in the years 800–1200 it is necessary to reimagine Scandinavia with significant
  relations to Russia, and in light of that reconsider the entire literary evidence.
  The hypothesis is that field studies according to the oldest sources can substantiate
  these contacts and thereby allow us to review the literary evidence. As a literary proof
  of relations, the article outlines and discusses medieval Eastern and Western sources
  according to the signifiers “Rus’” and “Varangians”. Furthermore, it considers the
  problems with former field studies and presents the findings of the new study. The
  findings show that travel to and from Russia and further east along the Russian rivers
  was within normal medieval travel-time, and at its core there was cooperation and
  exchange with the local population. Finally, in light of the findings the article gives
  a preliminary reinterpretation of the textual evidence of exchange in the period of
  the Danish King Harald Bluethooth and the Russian Prince Vladimir the Great. It
  proposes that exchanges influenced the religious transformations in both Denmark
  and Russia.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 18; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian-Scandinavian relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the route from the Varangians to the Greeks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old Rus’
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Rus’
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Varangians
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian waterways
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: medieval Russian boats
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural exchange
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Povest’ vremennyh let
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Vladimir the Great
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Harald Bluethooth
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Medieval Europe
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old Norse-Icelandic literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Rediscovering Russian-Scandinavian relations: The role of medieval Russian waterways
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
resources.filename: 409-427.pdf
resources.url: https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/23433/1/409-427.pdf
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