Prussia is the old name given to the area that is now largely the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.
Inhabited by the Prussian tribes, until being conquered by the Teutonic Knights, it had contact with Scandinavia to the west, and the Rus to the east, trading in furs, amber and slaves.
Two of its’ famous Viking-age towns were Kaup (German; Wiskiauten) and Truso.
- Archaeology
- Prussian Clans of the 13th century, map on Wikipedia.
- Archaeologists find traces of legendary Viking centre. 2006 news article by Thoralf Plath.
- Archaeological investigations at Wisiauten
- The Early Medieval Trading Settlement of Truso [PDF] by Marek F. Jagodzi?ski From the Lagomar Project
- Prussian Archaeology, with little distinction between Old-, and German- Prussians. [German Language]
- Archaeology of the Kaliningrad Region, by VI Kulakov [Russian Language]
- Handle and Sheath of Sword found at Kaup, Barrow 174 by VI Kulakov, O. Job [Russian Language]
- Re-enactment Groups
- Kaup: Club of Historical Modeling and Reconstruction.Lots of scans from books, and photographs of museum exhibits under ‘reconstruction’.
- Artwork
- Brass etchings from Christoph Hartknoch’s Old and New Prussia, 1684. [in German]
- Language
- Interestingly, the word ‘spruce’ has Prussian roots.
- Prussian Reconstructions, by Dr. Letas Palmaitis
- The Monuments of Old Prussian
- The Elbing Vocabulary
- Electronic text by Frederik Kortlandt
- Vocabulary, including black and white scans of the manuscript, by Peter Holcwesscher and Letas Palmaitis [PDF]
- The Simon Grunau Vocabulary
- Electronic text by Frederik Kortlandt
- Black and white scan of the manuscript [PDF]
- The Basel Epigram (The oldest known document written in Old Prussian.)
- The Old Prussian Basel Epigram by Jos Schaeken
- The Origin of the Lithuanian Language by William R. Schmalstig discusses the discovery of the manuscript.
- Onomastics
- Rheinhold Trautmann’s Die altpreußischen Personennamen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen; 1925)
