Finno-Ugrian - a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)
Shaw's assessment of relevant Anglo-Saxon sources; a contribution by Thomas DuBois and Bernhard Maier on Finno-Ugrian views and Celtic-Scandinavia interactions respectively; another by Vladimir J.
(21) In 1969, the American historian Denis Sinor, in the foreword to his lexical course for students at Indiana University, defined "Inner Asia" as a synonym of "Central Eurasia," the homeland of both Altaic peoples (Mongolian, Turkic, and Manchu-Tungus) and Uralic ones (Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed).
The Institute of Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences maintained until the summer of 2012 two large Archives of international interest functioning at the same time as research groups: the Bartok Archives preserving Bela Bartok's estate (2) and the Folk Music and Folk Dance Archives keeping not only Hungarian folk music and dance material but items collected among minorities, neighbouring peoples, Finno-Ugrian, Turkic and other ethnicities as well.
Julius Magiste's monumental "Estnisches etymologisches Worterbuch" remained unfinished because of the death of the author, but Finno-Ugrian Society in Helsinki published the manuscript of it in 1983 in twelve volumes (EEW).
The comparative perspective cuts across the conventional boundaries between Romance, Germanic, Slavonic, and Finno-Ugrian language groups and so provides a new perspective on relations between languages and between nations.
(3) In a certain way, Transylvania is a miniature Europe, including both the main ethnic groups (Latin, Germanic, Slavic, and also Finno-Ugrian) and the main religions and denominations (Orthodox, Catholic, Mosaic, Protestant and Neo-Protestant denominations, etc.) that define our continent.
As well wrought as works by Jerne's idols Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, and Lewis Carroll, The Finno-Ugrian Vampire belongs at the top of your "must-read" list.
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