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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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