Olaf Trygvason - Den norske Studentersangforening

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in russian cartoon about Volodymyr the Baptist of Kievan Rus' (Ruthenia) - Novgorod(after killing of his brother Yaropolk - Kiev Prince) Prince Volodymyr Svyatoslavych , cartoon "Prince Vladimir" 2006.There is his friend called simple "varyag" (old slavonik - viking) , it was Olaf Truggvason - king of Norway in 995-1000years. In real life, the history of Ukraine is associated with the vikings, so that at the end of the 9th century, Prince Oleg came to Kiev and killed the rulers of Kiev - Askold and Dir, and called Kiev the "mother of ruthenuan cities" , where the Rurik dynasty came to Kievan Rus'. Oleg also brought to Rus' such skandinavian names like Valdemar, Helga and Olaf, which the slavic people began to pronounce as Volodymyr, Olga and Oleh . later the Prince Svyatoslav made his youngest son, Volodymyr the Great the Prince of Novgorod, and after the death of Svyatoslav, he and his brother Yaropolk were raised by their grandmother, Princess Olga. Later, having matured, Yaropolk drove Volodymyr out of Novgorod and he wandered across the Baltic Sea robbing ports and cities with the varyans, and 2 years later, together with the varyags(vikings), he returned to Novgorod, killed the Yaropolk and in 988 made Kievan Rus' the Christian country . in 1187 the Pereyaslavl prince Volodynyr Glibovych renamed Rus' to the Vkraina(from 1657 called Ukraina) because of social fragmentation . By the way, coat of arms of Ukraine now is the coat of arms of Rurik . kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ_blWmwh8p1p68 also the zaporizhya cossacks, led by the hetman Ivan Mazepa, with the help of the army of the swedish king Karl(Charles) 12th in 1709, opposed the Moscovite Tsardom(02.11.1721 Moskovia was renamed into Russia by Peter the Great) during the Battle of Poltava. and now in the 21st century in the Kherson oblast(region) in south of Ukraine there is a village called Zmiyivka (formerly called Gamlasvenchka/old swedish) where descendants of swedes live (this is the only scandinavian village in Eastern Europe) where about 30 people speak swedish as their native language