C1 Vertaisarvioitu tieteellinen erillisteos
Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region
Tekijät: Maths Bertell, Frog, Kendra Willson
Julkaisuvuosi: 2019
Sarjan nimi: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
ISBN: 978-9-46-298263-5
Tiivistelmä
Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has functioned as a northern mare nostrum
— a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions,
literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi,
Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology explores the networks among
those peoples. The contributions to Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: Austmarr as a Northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 ad
address different aspects of cultural contacts around and across the
Baltic from the perspectives of history, archaeology, linguistics,
literary studies, religious studies, and folklore. The introduction
offers a general overview of crosscultural contacts in the Baltic Sea
region as a framework for contextualizing the volume’s twelve chapters,
organized in four sections. The first section concerns geographical
conceptions as revealed in Old Norse and in classical texts through
place names, terms of direction, and geographical descriptions. The
second section discusses the movement of cultural goods and persons in
connection with elite mobility, the slave trade, and rune-carving
practice. The third section turns to the history of language contacts
and influences, using examples of Finnic names in runic inscriptions and
Low German loanwords in Finnish. The final section analyzes
intercultural connections related to mythology and religion spanning
Baltic, Finnic, Germanic, and Sámi cultures. Together these d
Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has functioned as a northern mare nostrum
— a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions,
literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi,
Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology explores the networks among
those peoples. The contributions to Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: Austmarr as a Northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 ad
address different aspects of cultural contacts around and across the
Baltic from the perspectives of history, archaeology, linguistics,
literary studies, religious studies, and folklore. The introduction
offers a general overview of crosscultural contacts in the Baltic Sea
region as a framework for contextualizing the volume’s twelve chapters,
organized in four sections. The first section concerns geographical
conceptions as revealed in Old Norse and in classical texts through
place names, terms of direction, and geographical descriptions. The
second section discusses the movement of cultural goods and persons in
connection with elite mobility, the slave trade, and rune-carving
practice. The third section turns to the history of language contacts
and influences, using examples of Finnic names in runic inscriptions and
Low German loanwords in Finnish. The final section analyzes
intercultural connections related to mythology and religion spanning
Baltic, Finnic, Germanic, and Sámi cultures. Together these d
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