--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Rex,
>
The Kievan rulers at that time were Slavicised descendants of a
former Scandinavian elite, converted to Orthodox Christianity.
>
> Piotr
I would prefer to more prudently call representatives of the RusI
ethnos 'Germanic' rather than 'Scandinavian'. The sources we have
point, more or less consistently, to the South Baltic cost as their
probable Urheimat. Varingian (Scandinavian) influence were strong as
well, even some confrontation between RusI and Vare,zi is sometimes
supposed, but the rulers were of RusI, not Varangian origin.
Sergei