Bjarmaland – the forgotten history of the Vikings in Northern Russia. A description of the Vikings, the Bjarmians, the area around the delta of Northern Dvina and the wealth of nature in the Russian forests in the years 890-1250

• Main Author: Christensen Carsten Sander
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Institute of Modern Humanitarian Researches 2020
• Subjects: bjarmaland; vikings; white sea; northern dvina; kola peninsula; arctic ocean; ohthere of hålogaland; bjarmians; russian language; perm; skiringssal; hedeby; finno-ugric peoples; falcons; krasnoborsk; arkhangelsk; salekhard; omsk; History of scholarship and learning. The humanities; AZ20-999; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; White Sea; Kola Peninsula; Salekhard; Arkhangelsk; dvina; Hålogaland
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/88070c0401ec4bc58c21aa99ec119752

The Vikings’ rise in Northern Russia is a chapter in European history that is yet to be written. Political, linguistic and mental barriers have meant that this period of Northern Russia’s great expansion was sadly neglected by historians. But after 1990, with the opening of Russia’s archives for wes...