Birchbark letters from Veliky Novgorod and Staraya Russa excavations of 2019


2020. №5, 22-37

Alexey A. Gippius
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia;
Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; agippius@mail.ru

Abstract:

The article is a preliminary publication of the birchbark letters found in Novgorod and Staraya Russa during the archeological season of 2019.

Keywords
birchbark letters
Novgorod
Old Russian
Staraya Russa

For citation:

Gippius A. A. Birchbark letters from Veliky Novgorod and Staraya Russa excavations of 2019. Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 2020, 5: 22–37.

Acknowledgements:

The research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 19-18-00352). Archaeological research at Troitsky excavation in Veliky Novgorod is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 18-09-00372). The author is grateful to the heads of excavations for providing texts for publication and stratigraphic data. He also expresses his gratitude to M. A. Bobrik, S. M. Mikheev, D. V. Sitchinava and M. N. Tolstaya for their co-operation in the research and valuable comments.