Austrhálfa on the mental map of medieval Scandinavians -- Austrvegr and other aust- place- names -- Austmarr, "the Eastern Sea," the Baltic Sea -- Traversing Eastern Europe -- East European rivers -- Garar/ Gararíki as a designation of Old Rus' -- Hólmgarr (Novgorod) and Kaenugarr (Kiev) -- Aldeigja/ Aldeigjuborg (Old Ladoga) -- "Hǫfu garar" in Hauksbók, and some other old Russian towns -- Bjarmaland -- Óláfr Tryggvason -- Óláfr Haraldsson -- Magnús Óláfsson -- Haraldr Sigurarson.
Summary
Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the oecumene in particular. It also examines the unique Old Norse sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware.
