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  2. Pre-Christian Slavic writing - Wikipedia

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    The writer Vladimir Shcherbakov published a book for high school students through the Prosveshcheniye publishing house, in which he developed ideas about the relationship of Russians with the Etruscans and Thracians and the Slavs-Veneti, who once lived from India to Western Europe and gave the local peoples writing and statehood.

  3. Rurikids - Wikipedia

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    Two of Vladimir II's sons were Mstislav I of Kiev and Yuri Dolgorukiy. The Romanoviches (Izyaslavichi of Volhynia) were the line of Roman the Great , descended from Mstislav I of Kiev through his son Iziaslav II of Kiev and his grandson Mstislav II of Kiev , father of Roman the Great.

  4. Modern runic writing - Wikipedia

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    The second, was a medieval German heraldic symbol, originally representing a wolf trap. The latter, had nothing at all to do with runes, until List 'made' it a "rune" by adding it to the inventory. Apart from the two additional runes, and a displacement of the Man rune from 13th to 15th place, the sequence is identical to that of the Younger ...

  5. Rurik - Wikipedia

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    Rurik Prince of Novgorod Rurik on the 19th-century "Millennium of Russia" monument in Veliky Novgorod Reign 862–879 [a] Successor Oleg Died 879 [a] Novgorod Issue Igor Dynasty Rurik Religion Norse paganism Rurik (also spelled Rorik, Riurik or Ryurik ; Church Slavonic: Рюрикъ, romanized: Rjurikŭ ; [b] Old Norse: Hrøríkʀ ; died 879) [a] was a Varangian chieftain of the Rus' who ...

  6. Runology - Wikipedia

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    The study of runes was continued by Olof Rudbeck the Elder (1630–1702) and presented in his collection Atlantica. The physicist Anders Celsius (1701–1744) further extended the science of runes and traveled around Sweden to examine the bautastenar ( megaliths , today termed runestones ).

  7. What does the slang word 'mid' really mean? - AOL

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    What does 'mid' mean? Think: a lukewarm bowl of mac-and-cheese or a three-star hotel, says Kelly Elizabeth Wright, a postdoctoral research fellow in language sciences at Virginia Tech. For example:

  8. Russian literature - Wikipedia

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    1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book.. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian literature, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, [6] or pre-Petrian literature, [7] to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization.

  9. Runes - Wikipedia

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    The use of runes in Germanic mysticism, notably List's "Armanen runes" and the derived "Wiligut runes" by Karl Maria Wiligut, played a certain role in Nazi symbolism. The fascination with runic symbolism was mostly limited to Heinrich Himmler , and not shared by the other members of the Nazi top echelon.