Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Esthonia; Past and Present
Between 500-700 a.d. The Esthonians had already established themselves in their present territory, outrivalling the Scandinavians later on as traders, freebooters and pirates. They form a branch of the finno-ugrian group (the western division of the ural-altaic family) which has settled in Finland, Lapland, Esthonia, parts of Kurland, and in Hungary, and whose vigorous offshoots are still to be found in Russia south of Lake Onega, along the middle course of the river Volga. And between the Ural mountains and the river Yenissei in Western Siberia. Long and patient research and study enabled the eminent Danish linguist, Vilhelm Thomsen.
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