title: Uniquely preserved Slavic nautical technology behind religious exchange and transition in Old Rus and Scandinavia
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metadata.value: Frank, Thomas
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-08-18T13:43:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-08-18T13:43:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Frank T. Uniquely preserved Slavic nautical technology behind religious exchange and transition in Old Rus and Scandinavia. Scandinavian Philology, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1, pp. 169–209.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2022.111
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37462
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In order to understand how world religions such as Christianity spread, we need to
  investigate routes of religious exchange. This paper examines Scandinavian exposure to
  Christianity in the Viking Age from a maritime and theological perspective. It does so by
  combining literary, graphic, and material evidence with a field study of ancient boatbuilding,
  which is uniquely preserved in Russia. It investigates how Scandinavians in large
  numbers reached the Christian metropolis Constantinople by adapting their boatbuilding
  skills to Slavic nautical technology. An analysis of De Administrando Imperio proves
  that Scandinavians used and outfitted the Slavic expanded logboat in the text named
  σκαφίδιον (“skafidion”) along Put’ iz varjag v Greki from the Novgorod Region. It argues
  that this particular Slavic technology was the precondition for naval expeditions to Constantinople,
  and it offers a new explanation as to why Slavs over time used the term Rus as
  a signifier to identify themselves. The paper shows that this is cooperated and elaborated
  by the field study of the Russian expanded logboat ‘ботник’ (botnik). The paper argues
  that this study substantiates the claim in The Russian Primary Chronicle also known as
  Povest’ vremennykh let, that several thousand Scandinavians and Slavs reached Constantinople
  during their naval expeditions in year 860, 907, and 941, and the information that
  some of them were baptized in Constantinople, during these years. It is argued that the
  first major conversion of the Scandinavian elite took place abroad. Because of ботник,
  Scandinavians together with Slavs were exposed to the idea and reality of a Christian empire
  long before their kings and grand prince took on and adopted Christianity.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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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 20; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: De Administrando Imperio
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Povest’ vremennykh let
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Viking Age vessels
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Rus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Varangian
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: botnik
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religious transition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christianity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: boat graves
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Staraja Ladoga
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Constantinople
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: King Harald Bluetooth
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Grand Prince Vladimir
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Scandinavia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Viking Age
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Put’ iz varjag v Greki
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monoxylos
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: skeið
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Uniquely preserved Slavic nautical technology behind religious exchange and transition in Old Rus and Scandinavia
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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