The main object of Baecklund's study was to investigate the form of the 21 IHOSt frequent masculine nanles of Greek origin fo~nd in the Novgorodian documents Grarnoty Velikogo Novgoroda i Pskova (= GVN) edited by S. N. \Talk et al. and published by the Historical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, l\tloscow-Leningrad 1949. The birch bark "docurnents," excavated in Novgorod in 1955 and published by A. V. Arcichovskij and V. I. Borkovskij in 1958 under the title N

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... e gramoty na bereste (iz raskopov 1955 goda), did not reach the author until his work was in-the press and they were included in an Addendum on pp.191-192. In the Introduction (pp. 19-41) the author gives a review of Russian onomatology, characterizes the sources, and sketches the political and social conditions in medieval Novgorod. The main analysis of the names is given in the next chapter Nongorodian Personal Names (pp. 42-87). Here we find notes qn native Slavic names and Christian names of Greek, Latin and Hebrew origin, forenames, patronymic names and surnames, Slavization and Russification, the derivatives, and finally notes on frequency, variants and their social distribution.