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Associate professor of history at the University of Tartu. Has been a research fellow at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge.

Pärtel Piirimäe

Associate professor of history at the University of Tartu. Has been a research fellow at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge.

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Articles by Pärtel Piirimäe

  1. The idea of “Yule Land

    About Estonia’s endeavors to become part of the staid but stable Scandinavia – an effort based on the belief that the country actually has a special affinity with Scandinavia. One sign of this, Pärtel Piirimäe points out, is the use of the word jõul (cognate to English “Yule”). The Estonians, like the Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, and Finns, thus live in Yule Land.

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