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"ОКОНЧАНИЕ МОРСКОГО ЗАЛИВА" И "МОРЕ ТУМАНОВ": НЕКОТОРЫЕ ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЯ ДРЕВНИХ СКАНДИНАВОВ О СЕВЕРНОМ ЛЕДОВИТОМ ОКЕАНЕ (2022)
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№ 7 (2022)
The article deals with several placenames that occur in Old Norse texts denoting waters and territories outside the inhabited lands north of Norway. The combination of real knowledge and geographical discoveries with the idea of the North that seemed to be the abode of hostile forces and mythological creatures, led to the fact that the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean appear in a wide range of Old Norse sources of different genres and written down at different times in the form of a large sea bay that consisted of separate seas and was surrounded by lands stretching from the European North through Greenland and North America all the way to Africa, where both real and marvelous peoples lived.