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  2. Medieval runes - Wikipedia

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    The name meanings are inferred from the Norwegian and Icelandic rune poems. A hallmark of medieval runes was the optional sting or bar diacritic which was often used to indicate when a rune stands for a secondary sound; ᚡ gave /v/, ᚤ gave /y/ and /ø/, ᚧ gave /ð/, ᚵ gave /g/ and /ɣ/, ᛂ gave /e/ and rarely /j/, ᛑ gave /d/, ᛔ gave ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Old East Slavic literature - Wikipedia

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    The Evangelist John, a miniature from the Ostromir Gospel, mid-11th century. Old East Slavic literature, [1] also known as Old Russian literature, [2] [3] is a collection of literary works of Rus' authors, which includes all the works of ancient Rus' theologians, historians, philosophers, translators, etc., and written in Old East Slavic.

  6. 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:

  7. Volodymyr - Wikipedia

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    The related Ancient Slavic, such as Czech, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, etc. form of the name is Володимѣръ Volodiměr, which in other Slavic languages became Vladimir (from Church Slavonic: Владимѣръ, romanized: Vladiměr). Diminutives include Volodyk, Volodia, Lodgo and Vlodko. People named Volodymyr include:

  8. 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 ...

  9. Peterburgian Vedism - Wikipedia

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    Peterburgian Vedism began in relative independence from other Rodnover movements which developed in other parts of Russia. [3] This was due to the distinct culture of the city of Saint Petersburg, which is a Russian culture closer to the culture of Scandinavia than to mainland Russian culture, even in religious terms, with the presence of many groups afferent to Germanic Heathenry. [25]