toponymy in northern Russia carried out recently by Finnish Finno-Ugrist Janne Saarikivi.

Chuds in folklore

In Russian folk legends, the Chuds were described as exalted and beautiful. One characteristic of the Chuds was 'white-eyed', which means lightly colored eyes.

Russian bylinas and bylichkas describe the disappearance of the Chud when the Slavs came to their territories. When there were very few Chud left,

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