Scandinavian paganism in East Europe in the light of archaeology: common and special

Скандинавское язычество на Востоке по данным археологии: общее и особенное [Skandinavskoe jazyčestvo na Vostoke po dannym arxeologii: obščee i osobennoe]

Aleksandr Musin (1, 2)

1 Institut pour l’histoire de la culture matérielle, Académie des sciences de Russie
2 CRAHAM - Centre Michel de Boüard - Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales

The present paper deals with changes in Scandinavian paganism in Early Rus’ taken through the evolution of its material culture. The author compares different kinds of amulets found in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The rarity of several categories of Scandinavian amulets in Rus’ should be explained by the character of the presence of the Vikings in Rus’. The differences between archаeological materials and attested changes show us the process of acculturation of the Scandinavian in Eastern Europe and background of the Christianization of Early Rus’.

Keywords: paganism; amulets; acculturation; Christianization

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; Archaeology and Prehistory

Aleksandr Musin. Скандинавское язычество на Востоке по данным археологии: общее и особенное [Skandinavskoe jazyčestvo na Vostoke po dannym arxeologii: obščee i osobennoe]. Российский археологический ежегодник [Rossijskij arxeologičeskij ezegodnik, Saint-Pétersbourg], 2012, 2, pp.592-639. ⟨hal-03222893⟩