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ˈNormanist, n. (and a.)
[f. Norman n.1 + -ist.]
a. A favourer of the Normans.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ii. §14 Goodwin and Edmund..fought with Adnothus (sometime Master of their Fathers horse, but now a Normanist).
b. (See quot. 1970.) Also as adj.
1943G. Vernadsky Anc. Russia vii. iv. 276 Let us then turn to an appraisal of the results of the tournement of the Norsephiles (‘Normanists’) and Mysosnorses (‘Anti-Normanists’), so famous in the annals of the Russian historiography. Ibid. 277 The whole argument of the first Normanists was based on the premise that the very name of Rus spread from north to south and not otherwise. 1968G. Jones Hist. Vikings iii. iv. 247 The most readable ‘Normanist’ statement is still V. Thomsen's Relations. G. Vernadsky presents a summary of evidence for the ‘anti-Normanist’ view. Ibid. 264 To the disengaged it may well seem that the Normanist case has been as over-presented by a majority of Scandinavian historians as it has been played down by a majority of the historians of Russia. 1970Foote & Wilson Viking Achievement vi. 220 Scholars have tended to side with one of two factions; the first firmly believing in the importance of the Scandinavian element in the founding of Russian towns and of the Russian state itself, the second discounting this influence almost completely (these two schools of thought are labelled in technical literature by the unfortunate terms ‘Normanist’ and ‘anti-Normanist’). Ibid., Discussion of the validity of this evidence is at the basis of the Normanist controversy. Ibid. 222 Both Normanists and anti-Normanists are more or less agreed that Ladoga was at one time dominated by Scandinavian traders. |