From: Torsten Pedersen
Message: 5324
Date: 2001-01-05
> --- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Torsten Pedersen" <tgpedersen@...>Oops. In the sense that I heard that some people have claimed that
> wrote:
> > Saxo
> > Grammaticus mentions conflicts between Danes and Ruthenians.
> > Ruthenians in this context are Ukrainians.
> >
>
> Ukrainians in what sense? A mixture of Slavs, Germanic peoples
> ('Rusj'= Norse?) and already assimilated Balts&Iranians? There were
> no Ukrainians in today's sense at Saxo's times.
>
> Sergei