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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Bjarmaland (also spelled Bjarmland and Bjarmia) was a territory mentioned in Norse sagas up to the Viking Age and beyond in geographical accounts until the 16th century. The term is usually seen to have referred to the southern shores of the White Sea and the basin of the Northern Dvina River (Vienanjoki in Finnish) and, presumably, some of the surrounding areas. Today, those territories comprise a part of the Arkhangelsk region of Russia.In the account of the Viking adventurer Ottar, who visited Bjarmaland in the end of the 9th century AD, the term \"Beorm\" is used for the people of Bjarmaland. According to the account, \"Beormas\" spoke a language related to that of the Sami people, and lived in an area of the White Sea region.Accordingly, many historians assume the terms beorm and bjarm to derive from the Uralic word perm, which refers to \"travelling merchants\" and represents the Old Permic culture. However, some linguists consider this theory to be speculative.The recent research on the Uralic substrate in northern Russian dialects suggests that several other Uralic groups besides the Permians, lived in Bjarmaland, assumed to have included the Viena Karelians, Sami and Kvens. According to Helimski, the language spoken in the northern Archangel region ca. 1000 AD, which he terms Lop', was closely related to but distinct from the Sami languages proper. That would fit Ottar's account perfectly.Bjarmian trade reached southeast to Bolghar, by the Volga River, where the Bjarmians also interacted with Scandinavians and Fennoscandians, who adventured southbound from the Baltic Sea area."@en }

• Bjarmaland abstract "Bjarmaland (also spelled Bjarmland and Bjarmia) was a territory mentioned in Norse sagas up to the Viking Age and beyond in geographical accounts until the 16th century. The term is usually seen to have referred to the southern shores of the White Sea and the basin of the Northern Dvina River (Vienanjoki in Finnish) and, presumably, some of the surrounding areas. Today, those territories comprise a part of the Arkhangelsk region of Russia.In the account of the Viking adventurer Ottar, who visited Bjarmaland in the end of the 9th century AD, the term \"Beorm\" is used for the people of Bjarmaland. According to the account, \"Beormas\" spoke a language related to that of the Sami people, and lived in an area of the White Sea region.Accordingly, many historians assume the terms beorm and bjarm to derive from the Uralic word perm, which refers to \"travelling merchants\" and represents the Old Permic culture. However, some linguists consider this theory to be speculative.The recent research on the Uralic substrate in northern Russian dialects suggests that several other Uralic groups besides the Permians, lived in Bjarmaland, assumed to have included the Viena Karelians, Sami and Kvens. According to Helimski, the language spoken in the northern Archangel region ca. 1000 AD, which he terms Lop', was closely related to but distinct from the Sami languages proper. That would fit Ottar's account perfectly.Bjarmian trade reached southeast to Bolghar, by the Volga River, where the Bjarmians also interacted with Scandinavians and Fennoscandians, who adventured southbound from the Baltic Sea area.".