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		In Egil's saga \par the location and geopolitical situation of Kvenland is described in full \par detail: \par \par Torulf Kveldulfsson, a great Norwegian chief, traveled east towards Kvenland \par with 100 men at arms.
		He met Faravid, the king of Kvenland and heard that \par the Carelians (or Bjarmians?) were raiding the north eastern areas of \par Kvenland.
		The shields of the Norrwegians proved stronger and \par superior to the ones of the Kvens and the Bjarmians.
	www.florilegium.org /files/CULTURES/Finland-hist-art.rtf (1797 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bjarmaland
		Bjarmian god Jomali is probably Finnic but the description of the god is more Siberian, especially the crown adorned with twelve stars in gold, characteristic to Siberian shaman caps.
		Modern historians suppose that the wealth of the Bjarmians was due to their profitable trade along the Dvina, the Kama River and the Volga to Bolghar and other trading settlements in the south.
		While many Slavs fled the Mongol invasion northward, to Beloozero and Bjarmaland, the displaced Bjarmians sought refuge in Norway, where they were given land in Malangen, by Haakon IV of Norway, in 1240.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bjarmaland (836 words)

	Road to Hel - THE CULT OF THE DEAD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is made of two things, silver and earth; a double handful of silver is carried into it for every man who goes out of the world, and likewise when he comes into the world; and the same amount of earth.
		This practice of the Bjarmians is borne out by the detailed account of the journey of Karli and Þórir Hundr to Bjarmaland, given in the Heimskringla, in the Saga Óláfs ens Helga (CXXXIII).
		The howe is evidently near the shrine of the god of the Bjarmians (Jómali), for some confusion is caused and the adventurers are nearly caught because Karli insists on stealing the god’s necklace.
	www.normanniireiks.org /guilds_lore/lore/roadtohel/chapter_04.htm (6845 words)

	Categorizing “Otherness” in Heimskringla
		Not much information is actually given about the Bjarmians in Heimskringla: only that they trade furs and that they have a graveyard full of treasures with a statue of their god Jómali.
		The Bjarmians seem to fall into the same category as the Finnar: they live somewhere in the far north, and they are linked with paganism, because they worship Jómali.
		The Bjarmians are not directly linked to witchcraft, but because they lived in the far north and worshipped their god Jómali, they were probably considered ‘very different’ (i.e.
	www.dur.ac.uk /medieval.www/sagaconf/aalto.htm (3321 words)

	Teutonic Myth and Legend: Chapter XXI. Hother and Balder
		Thus became he victor by reason of his kindliness as well as his might.
		A strong friend to Hother was Helgi, King of Halogaland, who loved Thora, daughter of Cuse, the ruler of the Finns and the Bjarmians.
		The monarch had a blemish of tongue, so that he stuttered greatly, and was unable to utter with eloquence the sweet speeches of love.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/tml/tml26.htm (3354 words)

	The Northern Archaeological Congress / I Northern Archaeological Congress 2002 / Publications
		Judging by the reception given to Ottar by the Anglo-Saxon king his visit to the British Isles was also with an important mission (Alfred 1855).
		There it connected with the Volga and the Dnieper routes complementing the giant network of waterways woven by the Vikings across Eastern Europe from the Baltic and White seas to the Black and Caspian seas.
		Old Ladoga was a colony and the terminal station of the Vikings at the crossroads of the ways not only "to Greeks" (southward) and "to Arabs" (eastward), but also "to Bjarmians" (northward).
	northcongress.ural.ru /index/en/arh/public?r_id=750 (5578 words)

	Bjarmeland
		Bjarmeland (Bjarmaland) and Bjarmians, a Finnic people, are in the old Nordic literature common names on the landscape and the people of the White sea around the Dvina.
		The Bjarmians are mentioned first in the Norwegian Ottar from Hålogaland's account to king Alfred the Great of England, the king of the Anglo-Saxons, about his voyage to Bjarmeland in ca.
		The Bjarmians preferred to trade, but the vikings preferred to plunder.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/792492 (277 words)

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