The Relations Between Ancient Russia and Scandinavia, and the Origin of the Russian State

By Vilhelm Ludvig Peter Thomsen

Subjects: Scandinavia, foreign relations, Ukraine, foreign relations, Varangians

Description: 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 ...