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Bjarmaland – the forgotten history of the Vikings in Northern Russia. A description of the Vikings, the Bjarmians, the area around the delta of Northern Dvina and the wealth of nature in the Russian forests in the years 890-1250

Journal: Studia Humanitatis (Vol.2020, No. 2)

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Keywords : Bjarmaland; Vikings; White Sea; Northern Dvina; Kola Peninsula; Arctic Ocean; Ohthere of Hålogaland; Bjarmians; Russian language; Perm; Skiringssal; Hedeby; Finno-Ugric peoples; Falcons; Krasnoborsk; Arkhangelsk; Salekhard; Omsk;

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Abstract

He Vikings' rise in Northern Russia is a chapter in European history that is yet to be written. Political, linguistic and mental barriers have meant that this period of Northern Russia's great expansion was sadly neglected by historians. But after 1990, with the opening of Russia's archives for western researches, we can finally begin collecting the small pieces for a jigsaw puzzle of the Vikings' journey in the area of the Kola Peninsula. Recent archaeological finds help us to support the theory that the Viking voyages in the White Sea and the Arctic Ocean have had greater significance and extent than previously thought. This article will shed new light on Bjarmaland, the Bjarmians and why the Vikings for many centuries pilgrimage to the area where Arkhangelsk is today. Were they in the area at all? And how there still are traces in our modern society of this era. Furthermore, the trade connections between Vikings, Bjarmians and Russians will be put into a larger perspective and the Vikings' trade routes in both Eastern and Western Europe will be described.

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