Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region : Amsterdam University Press : 9789462982635 : 9462982635 : 28 Jun 2019 : " Breadth " Interdisciplinarity " novel perspectives Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has functioned as a northern mare nostrum ? a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi, Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology explores the networks among those peoples. The contributions to Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: Austmarr as a Northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 ad address different aspects of cultural contacts around and across the Baltic from the perspectives of history, archaeology, linguistics, literary studies, religious studies, and folklore. The introduction offers a general overview of crosscultural contacts in the Baltic Sea region as a framework for contextualizing the volume's twelve chapters, organized in four sections. The first section conc