Medievalists.net » russ 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 The Emergence of the North http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/05/the-emergence-of-the-north/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/05/the-emergence-of-the-north/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:04:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37755 Apart from this bipolar system that contrasted North and South, authors writing in the Old Norse-Icelandic language also appear to use the term Norðrlönd within a quadripolar system that held good beyond the immediate region: Norðrlönd, the Vestrlönd (the British Isles), Suðrríki (Germany, the Holy Roman Empire), and Austrríki or Austrvegr (Russia and other lands to the East).

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