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  3. The Relations between Ancient Russia and Scandinavia, and the Origin of the Russian State
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2010
Print publication year:
2010
First published in:
1877
Online ISBN:
9780511709760
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709760
Subjects:
Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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Book description

The Relations between Ancient Russia and Scandinavia, first published in 1877, by the Danish philologist, Vilhelm Thomsen (1842–1927), contains Thomsen's three lectures on the origins of the Russian state. The lectures were given at the Taylor Institution, Oxford, in May 1876. The first lecture covers the ethnic background of ancient Russia and its earliest political institutions and the second and third lectures investigate Russia's Scandinavian origins. Thomsen demonstrated and explored the interlinked histories of Russia and Scandinavia by comparative examinations of Russian and the Scandinavian languages. By this analysis, Thomsen was able to demonstrate the importance of the Scandinavian element in the earliest origins of Russian culture, identity, political institutions and language. The work is an outstanding piece of philological investigation and a key text in early Russian cultural, linguistic and political history. It continues to be relevant to the advanced student of Russian language and early Russian history.

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