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| | RAMBAUD ON THE RUSSIAN SLAVS OF NESTOR THE CHRONICLER |
 | | The TchoudZavolotchians were encamped on the Lower Dwina; the Erzes, or Zyrians, inhabited the basin of the Petchora; the Permians, the source of the Dwina and the Kama; the Votiaks of Ari lived on the Viatka, where the town of Viatka still preserves their name. |
 | | These races form what is called the Permian branch of the Finnish nation; their country was named by the Scandinavians, Biarmia or Biarmaland, and 11 Great Permia" by the Muscovites. |
 | | Biarmaland was discovered in the 9th century by the Norwegian navigator Other, who not long afterwards entered the Service of Alfred the Great, king of England, and has left in AngloSaxon an account of his travels. |
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