all birchbark letters online: gramoty.ru

[H.P.Houtzagers]

Dear SEELANGers,

my colleague Jos Schaeken asked me to draw your attention 
to a website that was launched very recently and on which 
you can find a wealth of information on the birchbark 
letters from Novgorod and other Russian towns, which, as 
we all know, for the past few decades have been changing 
the face of East Slavic historical linguistics.

The address of the site is http://gramoty.ru (without 
www). It contains not only photographs, "prorisi" and 
translations of all published birchbark letters, including 
recently excavated ones, but also historical, 
archeological, bibliographic and linguistic comments on 
almost every one of them. I personally think it is very 
impressive, not to say amazing.

The site forms part of the INTAS project “Birchbark 
Literacy from Medieval Rus: Contents and Contexts”. You 
will find more information on the project and team 
involved in it on the site.

Enjoy!

Peter Houtzagers

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