Re: [tied] Digest Number 337

As I recal, the slavs in the area of what is now know as Kiev, went to
Sweden and asked prince Rurik to bring order to their chaotic lives. The
term 'rus' is the Swedish name for the 'slavic' tribes they subdued and
settled. Kievan Rus is the 'nation' that resulted.

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>Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 12:06:45 -0000
> From: S.Tarasovas@...
>Subject: Re: Language - Area - Routes
>
>--- 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
>
>
>

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