The Relations Between Ancient Russia and Scandinavia, and the Origin of the Russian State
Subtitle: three lectures delivered at the Taylor Institution, Oxford, in May, 1676
Series: Cambridge Library Collection; Cambridge Library Collection
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781108014540
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 ...
Table of contents: title: Preface; 1. On the inhabitants of ancient Russia, and the foundation of the Russian state; 2. On the Scandinavian origin of the ancient Russ; 3. On the denomination and history of the Scandinavian element in Russia; Appendix; Inde.