Dr. Letas  PALMAITIS
                                Balticist & Orientalist, Ethnologist

                            Cell. ph.
+370 67746906,  e-mail: ingrian@sanctpeter.com

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  1. Introduction
 
2. Positions and grants
  3. Research work: 
OrientalisticsIndoeuropean and general linguistics,       
                                         
Indoeuropean and Baltic linguisticsPrussology  
 
4. Life programme: N.-Baltic boundarytoponymsRURIKExperimental Prussian,
                                         
Documented novel about Ingermanland
  5. Support

 
     
   
   
 
   

 

The theme is closed after publications of 2008-2009 (see on the bottom of this page).
       

 
The Baltic origin of the names Russia and Russians.
     The hypothesis has been formulated by Dr. Letas Palmaitis in 2001 Festive Volume dedicated to Prof. Dr. Habil. Michal Hasiuk, Poznan University. Enough linguistic data (first of all an undoubtful role of Western Balts in adopting Scandinavian word vikingR by the Russians in the form vityaz) as well as historical data are gathered to show that Primary Russes were a West Baltic Scalovian tribe of the basin of the river *Rusa, today Rusne.  While it has been already discovered by analizing DNA data that Rurik was of Finnougrian origin, the author states  that vikings-vitings of littoral part of the Baltic lands were mostly scandinavized Balts mixed with accidental representatives of various ethnic groups of the post-wandering period.

Publications:

1.
Guessed Riddles of the Millenium [in Lithuanian: Imintos tukstantmecio misles]. Kaunas: Kalendorius 2009.

 

2. On the Northern Direction of the Mission of St. Bruno of Querfurt [in Lithuanian]. / Baltistica, 44(2), 2009, 381-390.

 

 3. Die Mission des Hl. Brun von Querfurt im Licht der westbaltischen (schalauischen) Hypothese über die Herhunft des Namens Rus [im Polnischen]. / Masovia, 13, (Gizycko-Olsztyn) 2010, 3-22.


      


 
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