Stewards, Soldiers and Court Officials: Three Scandinavian Elements in the Language of Old Russian Law

The present volume is dedicated to Scandinavian lexical borrowings inOld Russian, a topic, that has been discussed for almost 300 years, andapproaches the issue from different points of view. In the first part of thebook, the author deals with the specific problems that any researcherof this subject necessarily has to meet, being the so-called Varangiancontroversy over the beginnings of Russia that has had a strong ideological impact on the results of many hitherto publications and that isfar f ...