The Not-Yet-Fully-Welcome ‘Guests in the House’
Przemysław Urbańczyk
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes 1 Translation from the Swedish original – Gäster I huset. Kulturell överföring mellem slaver och skandinaver 900 till 1300, Lund 2001. 2 Skre, ‘Exploring Skiringssal’, 42. 3 Cf. Schachtmann, Strobel, and Widera, Politik und Wissenschaft. 4 E.g. conference ‘Scandinavia, Baltic Sea Poland: Cultural Material Exchanges’, Gdańsk, 28–30 September 2008, co-organized by Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies (Bergen) Institute of Archaeology Ethnology (Warsaw). 5 Naum, Homelands Lost Gained. 6 Besides my serious reservation against use this collective name, its Germanic origin suggests English translation Vends (like in Blomkvist, The Discovery Baltic) rather than Wends. 7 Baltic, 134. 8 old-Slavic terms: ‘liutyj’ (Sreznevskii, Materialy dla slovaria drevne-russkogo iazyka po pis'miennym pamiatnikam, 96) ‘luty’ (Słownik języka polskiego, 235) leave no doubt about Slavic name. They allow a guess that ethnonym was created contrasting inhabitants lands located on both sides Oder. Liutici were supposed represent ‘wild/severe/cruel’ people (Lübke, Qui sint vel unde huc venerint; Urbańczyk, Trudne począkti Polski, chapter 12). 9 133. 10 Brather, ‘The Beginnings Settlement’, 329. 11 Snorre Sturluson claimed Olav firstly married Geira, daughter Mieszko I, whom typically mistook his son Boleslaw Chrobry ‘Saga om Tryggvason’, 22 (p. 136), 29 141). 12 Giesebrecht, Geschichte der deutschen Keiserzeit, 196f; Duczko, ‘Real Imaginary Contributions’, 131f; Wood, Missionary Life, 238. 13 Nilsson, ‘Kring några bortglömda tankar Suigi Olof Skötkonungs dop’, 212. 14 Housted, Stednavne af slavisk oprindelse på Lolland, 89. 15 ‘Dark Age Towns’, 27. 16 136. 17 also Indruszewski, Man. Ship, Landscape. 18 Jensen, ‘Saxos graenser’, 9. 19 140. 20 88. 21 analysis Labuda, ‘Słowianie w wizjach historiografii’. Quite understandably, intellectual atmosphere provoked emergence counter-ideology, which glorified past achievements Slavs promoted pan-Slavic solidarity; ‘Mediaeval Polish Historic-Political Discourse’. Svanberg, Decolonizing Viking 1; Death Rituals South-East Scandinavia. 23 discussion ‘Deconstructing “Nordic Civilization”’. 24 Roslund, huset, 322. 25 want express thanks Maciej Trzeciecki comments regarding specialist ceramological aspects. 26 Texts non-Germanic languages make less 5% Roslund's ‘Literature’ (pp. 331–50). 27 Several names eminent scholars are seriously misspelled at p. xii xiii, 229. Such nonchalance is not rare Scandinavian literature e.g. Nils Blomkvist book published Brill 2005 consequently calls professor Lechiewicz instead Leciejewicz. 28 have admit similar tendency dominates among archaeologists working south Sea, exclusions bad tradition still despite obviously positive results (e.g. Dulinicz, Frühe Slawen im Gebiet zwischen unterer Weichsel Elbe). What Mats Roslund ‘eastern Denmark’ today south-western Sweden. 30 To surprise, index does even contain ‘Bornholm’, means key island placed half way between south-Scandinavian west-Slavic has deserved author's interest. most probable reason belongs Denmark. 31 valuable reviews Jones (The Ethnicity) Jenkins (Rethinking Ethnicity).
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