Birchbark letters from Veliky Novgorod and Staraya Russa excavations of 2022


2023. №5, 7-28

Aleksey A. Gippius

HSE University, Moscow, Russia; Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; agippius@mail.ru

Abstract:

The article contains a preliminary publication of twelve birchbark letters of the twelfth — first half of the fifteenth century, found in the archaeological season of 2022 in Veliky Novgorod (Nos. 1146–1157), and letters Nos. 52 and 53 from Staraya Russa. Letters Nos. 1142 and 1143 from the excavations of 2021, which were not included in the previous article, are also published.

Keywords
birchbark letters
Novgorod
Old Russian
Staraya Russa

For citation:

Gippius A. A. Birchbark letters from Veliky Novgorod and Staraya Russa excavations of 2022. Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 2023, 5: 7–28.

Acknowledgements:

The research was carried out at the Higher School of Economics at the expense of the grant of the Russian Science Foundation No. 19-18-00352, https://rscf.ru/project/19-18-00352/. The author thanks the heads of the excavations for providing material for publication and stratigraphic data. The author is grateful to D. V. Sitchinava and M. N. Tolstaya for co-operation and to the anonymous reviewers for valuable remarks.