Old Novgorod dialect- a remnant of an ancient North Slavic branch ?

[Paluga]

Read this interesting wikipedia article about the Old Novgorod dialect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Novgorod_dialect

[Kangxi]

Probably there was a heavy Finnic influence in all aspects of Novgorod:

http://www.helsinki.fi/venaja/nwruss.../saarikivi.pdf

[sioned]

I'm sure the vikings left their mark there too, and later from the Hanze

[Russki]

Probably there was a heavy Finnic influence in all aspects of Novgorod:

http://www.helsinki.fi/venaja/nwruss.../saarikivi.pdf

The dead link leads to some Finnish source.

Old inhabitants of the land Votians are a tribe of Estonians and have nothing to do with Finnish people.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votians