Re: [tied] Baltic Slav rebellion

From: Max Dashu
Message: 5533
Date: 2001-01-15

Thanks, Sergei, for this very interesting account, which fills in quite a
few blanks for me. I am especially interested in the rebellion you mention
below, which I hadn't heard of before. Can you say more about this, or
recommend sources on it? Thanks in advance.

Max Dashu

>the great rebellion of the Baltic Slavs in 983, which nearly eliminated
>Christianity in the southern Baltic for a while. It need not
>explanation that relations between, eg, the Danes and the Baltic
>Slavs were far from friendly, and this is another reason why Vladimir
>could bar trade routes for Vikings.