Radtke C.

Key words: anthropomorphic wooden figurine, Schleswig, 11th–12th cc., Novgorod, trade routes, superstition.
The subject of the article is the unique fi nd from the 11th–12th cc. layer at the medieval port in Schleswig (Germany): an anthropomorphic wooden figurine and its analogies from Western and Eastern Europe. Similar figurines from the same age have been found in Novgorod, and depict the so-called domovye (house spirits). The article considers the trade routes through which the Novgorod figurine could have found its way to Schleswig, and the pagan rituals in Novgorod which could have involved such “idols”.