Talk:Birch bark manuscript

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Languages used[edit]

Does the Russian language article say anything about the languages used? How many of the documents are written in Old Norse? -- Petri Krohn 22:25, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Answer: There are only one document written in Old Norse. It was found in Smolensk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.118.83.1 (talk • contribs)

Authenticity[edit]

Did anybody (besides Russian archeologists who found these birchbark documents) critically assesed the authenticity of birchbark documents? Any non-RUssian sources about them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.216.45.177 (talk) 09:00, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The authenticity of the texts is established beyond doubt.

Franklin, Simon. (1985). "Literacy and Documentation in Early Medieval Russia." Speculum 60:1 - 38.

Franklin, Simon. (2002). Writing, Society, and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950 - 1300. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Levin, Eve. (1997). "Lay Religious Identity in Medieval Russia: The Evidence of Novgorod Birch-Bark Documents." General Linguistics 35:131 - 155.

Mühle, Eduard. (1994). "Commerce and Pragmatic Literacy: The Evidence of Birchbark Documents (from the Mid-Eleventh to the First Quarter of the Thirteenth Century) on the Early Urban Development of Novgorod." In California Slavic Studies XIX: Medieval Russian Culture II, eds. Michael S. Flier and Daniel Rowland. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Thompson, M. W. (1967). Novgorod the Great. London: Evelyn, Adams, and Mackay.

Vermeer, Willem. (1995). "Towards a Thousand Birch-bark Letters." Russian Linguistics 19:109 - 123. 92.124.78.251 (talk) 21:57, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

https://books.google.com/books?id=AcgfAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA246 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.90.196.227 (talk) 10:13, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]