Medievalists.net » Karelia http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Bjarmaland and interaction in the North of Europe from the Viking Age until the Early Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/06/bjarmaland-interaction-north-europe-viking-age-early-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/06/bjarmaland-interaction-north-europe-viking-age-early-middle-ages/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2014 10:54:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48791 This article intends to look at interaction in the very north of early medi- eval Europe with Bjarmaland as a starting point. After a short introduction to sources and historiography about Bjarmaland, the main content of the sources will be shortly discussed in order to establish what kind of informa- tion the written sources have to offer.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/06/bjarmaland-interaction-north-europe-viking-age-early-middle-ages/feed/ 0 The politico-religious landscape of medieval Karelia http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/14/the-politico-religious-landscape-of-medieval-karelia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/14/the-politico-religious-landscape-of-medieval-karelia/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:53:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47575 In historical sources the Karelians appear in the 12th century although archaeological excavations suggest that the amalgamation of groups of Baltic Finns, centered on the Karelian Isthmus, that came together from east and west respectively to form them originated in the late Iron Age and early Viking Age.

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