ARCTIC The Participation of the Kings in the Early Norwegian Sailing to Bjarmeland (Kola Peninsula and Russian Waters), and the Development of a Royal Policy Concerning the Northern Waters in the Middle Ages
the realm has not always gone so far north. In earlier times Finmark and the inner parts of Troms were not inhabited by Norwegians but by a Finnish-Ugrian-speaking nomadic peo-ple, few in numbers, called the Fins. The first move of Norwegians into the polar regions was to Finmark. Archaeologists can...
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| Summary: | the realm has not always gone so far north. In earlier times Finmark and the inner parts of Troms were not inhabited by Norwegians but by a Finnish-Ugrian-speaking nomadic peo-ple, few in numbers, called the Fins. The first move of Norwegians into the polar regions was to Finmark. Archaeologists cannot say for certain how early the Fins and the Norwegians came into cultural contact with each other. However, from the end of the ninth century we have a well-known written statement that deals with the settlement and casts light upon the economic structures thereof the sup-plementary translation into the Anglo-Saxon language, made |
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