The Kievan-Rus: Ukraine's Viking Founders - DOCUMENTARY

In this documentary, we look at the origins of the Kievan Rus. The Vikings who assailed the shores of Britain and France were mostly Norwegian or Danish. But Viking adventurers from Sweden were drawn east, to the Baltic Sea and beyond. What drove their wanderlust was the dirhem, a high-grade silver coin. In the 9th century, the Caliphate’s wealthy markets teemed with luxury goods. These coins found their way to Sweden, and sparked the curiosity of enterprising chiefs. On the Swedish island of Gotland, vast silver hoards filled with dirhems confirm the activity of Swedish Vikings trading and plundering in the Baltic.
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Sources:
-Ferguson, Robert - The Vikings, (Penguin, 2010)
-Haywood, John - Northmen: The Viking Saga, AD 793-1241, (Head of Zeus, 2020)
-Ibn-Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travelers in the Far North, trans Paul Lunde, (Penguin, 20212)
-Logan, F. Donald - The Vikings in History, (Routledge, 1991)
-The Poetic Edda - Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes, trans. Jackson Crawford, (Hackett, 2015)
-Plokhy, Serhii - The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, (Basic, 2021)
Animated maps by Daniel Weiss
Narrated by Tom Wylde
Written and edited by J Stephen Roberts
#Vikings #KievanRus #ProjectUkraine
End credits song: "Isabel" by Roman Lion:
• Isabel - Roman Lion

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Take a tour through the Viking Age: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6WuZad8rZxgqck

[@darthracer777]

RCH: What are your thoughts on The Albigensian Crusade? Catholics vs Cathars. It seemed to be as bloody as the other crusades. There's a video about it on the Warographics channel. It's amazing how people justified their actions back then. There was nothing Christlike about them.

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

@@darthracer777 I did a doc on that one you might enjoy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGm7dqJ3fculnqc

[@buddyrojek9417]

My middle name is Igor, I want 40 concubines and to pluck one for public display

[@kdog543]

Also beads were found in archeology dig in viking lands that originated from middle east too. Shows an long trail of trading in deep trading and parts of Russia is to believe to be an land bridge to that place.

[@tohaason]

About the funeral ritual.. at that time the Scandinavians didn't burn their dead, they buried them (in ships, if possible). The "burn time", as it was called, was several centuries earlier. That alone tells that the described ritual was different from what was practiced in Scandinavia.

[@AlcantaraMC]

Hello from Novgorod.

[@coreyrusso890]

A Russian Viking?

[@danieldmelniki8834]

Grateful for this Playlist! @Kings and Generals & Company!!

[@vergil7185]

Such a great and interesting video! Thank you for your content!

[@carlhakansson9719]

Great video! 🇸🇪

[@HistoryandHeadlines]

So far I have given a thumbs up to every video in this playlist and am looking forward to the others!

[@Chriscs7]

You should put the year on topnright corner of the maps you show like kag do. Nice video

[@Alsayid]

It would be so cool to discover a previously unknown recording of the history of Rus wars and events in the land that came to be Russia

[@mandalorianactual1215]

Great video!

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@PurelyGoliath]

Thanks for educating us, and bringing a smile to my face.

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Thank you!

[@TacticalGoat]

Ukraine is Russua

[@PurelyGoliath]

@@TacticalGoat sure doesn’t look that way.

[@d3vildoll666]

​@@PurelyGoliathlooks doesnt dictate facts. Rewriting history books doesn't help either.

[@PurelyGoliath]

@@d3vildoll666 Rus civilization was founded in Kyiv, lol.

[@rmp7400]

Your theme melody is like a lit match🔥

[@EasternRomanHistory]

Wow, this video is great. I think your narrator and editor was fantastic and always enjoy your videos Stephen. Great to have collaborated with everyone on this project.

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Thanks Daniel! I'm looking forward to checking out your video as well!

[@enskovy]

Great video : )

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Glad you liked it!

[@toorajmansoori9084]

Thank you for video

[@detarver]

what previz did you use to create the 3d?

[@newsjunkie3000]

This reminds this of the movie The 13th Warrior!

[@Boric78]

Always found it interesting the Swedes believed they came from the steppes in or near modern ukraine. They even thought Odin came from there. What is fascinating is that the Heruli ,a germanic migration era tribe, who had been under the domination of the Huns, it is alleged moved back to Sweden in the 5-6th century. They is some archaeological evidence for this. And where did the huns find these people ? As part of the Goth empire in the 360's - somewhere on the steppe near modern ukraine. Its possible the viking legends of asgard, odin, thor etc are some kind of racial memory of their own history or at least that of their chiefs.

[@soiah]

There was no Goth Emprie, but there was a Got/Get one. It was the biggest nation of europe separated by Dnepr river in Geta/Gota and MasaGeta/MasaGota. They came from the Gota as preserved in the GotLand region name.

[@Boric78]

@@snuurferalangur4357 How do you know what they believed ? There are no written sources - just by your own admission something written centuries later.

[@Briguy1027]

Fascinating postulations. I suppose we'll never know, but ideas are definitely intriguing.

[@jakeg3733]

It's even more interesting than that. Go back another 3000 to 4000 years. At that time, Europe and the middle East were populated by indigenous people, people that now only exist as a linguistic and genetic substrate in current populations. Anyway, the first Indo-Europeans were one people on the steppes speaking one language. From there they spread. To Europe, to Iran & Turkey, to India and China even. So the swedes are even more correct than they could have known. It's also interesting to note that Odin and many of the other Gods may have existed in some form in the mythology of these early Indo-Europeans

[@Sashkotheweird]

@@soiahDnipro (modern name of Borisfen)

[@missourimongoose8858]

I've always wondered if the vikings ever ran into any zoastrians

[@JoeSmith-sl9bq]

No mystery- they would steal their gold.

[@brianlevine1479]

They traveled to Baghdad. May have met some there.

[@yashvardhansingh1343]

zorastrians didnt much exist in Islamic era

[@jtmoore662]

Im sure they did. I think they were in Iran most parts.

[@cezar211091]

​@@yashvardhansingh1343they probably survived in small pockets in the Caucasus

[@blueanon8021]

I'm trying my best to learn more about the world it can get very difficult trying to remember everything and the different people and languages.

[@daliborperkovic3918]

What are the paintings shown in the video?

[@Kuriver]

Maybe the symbol of long boat is a bit confusing. The rivers could not be traversed by ships but the travellers had to change to smaller boats. So, any longboats travelling to Byzantine would have been built at the other end of the river route. So the route was an advanced system with posts to change mode of transport, to winter and to store items.

[@jacquesstrapp3219]

Long ships were capable of navigating inland rivers including the Volga. They had a shallow draft and could operate in water that was only 1 meter deep. They were also light enough to be carried or pushed on rollers over portages.

[@Kuriver]

@@jacquesstrapp3219 Do you have a source for this? The river systems included many rapids and there are documentary evidence of Rus traveling with "monoxyla" (lit. one log, a north Eurasian traditional dugout canoe, which was a resilient and light craft ideal for such journeys. It might be possible physically but not practical, as changing crafts at specific centres is more efficient.

[@jacquesstrapp3219]

@@Kuriver My family comes from the Volga region. The Volga is huge. At it's widest and deepest it is over 3 km wide and 50 meters deep. At it's source it is almost 500 meters wide and 20 meters deep. This is easily navigable for long ships. The Varangians (Vikings) had a base at Ladoga. They would sail up the Volkhov River to lake Ilmen then up the Lovat River. They would then portage their long ships 3 km to the Volga River. It was easy sailing all the way to the Caspian Sea from there. I suggest you educate yourself by searching Varangians, longships and the Volga trade route before making any further comments.

[@thierrybirs1385]

@@jacquesstrapp3219really it is like a movie in your mouth.thanks.

[@user-mh6pz8rq9d]

Well, Russians used ships called "ladya" for trading with the vikings and the Byzantine and they were designed like vikings' drakkars

[@JUAN_OLIVIER]

The Rus conquered the Slavs militarily and the Slavs conquered the Rus culturally in the end.

[@WorldPeace-AdamNeira]

The TV Series "Vikings" brought me here.

[@warl1x]

The way the Russians were shown in the series is terrible. Not only did they have Russian Christians before the baptism of Russia, but they also have Mongolian clothes

[@johnfast5852]

History has been mostly bloody, no matter what nationality or culture one comes from.

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Yep. Nature itself is quite brutal.

[@berserkerstrommortsgreb3131]

Triggered!!! But but ……Only white people have violent

[@achrafelh]

and it's still bloody, hope one day this world can be peaceful

[@kimfleury]

I'd heard of the Silk Road but never looked for the trail. I had no idea it went through any Viking territory.

[@MMArigo]

It didn’t

[@E.C.2]

I didn't know it either.

[@-RONNIE]

A good video 👊🏻

[@jaydeister9305]

"It's delightful and exciting to know that my ancestors were pagan barbarians (barbarian pagans? take your pick!)."

[@matt.willoughby]

Just pegans. Their practice ritual sacrifice is certainly barbaric though.

[@meadish]

@@matt.willoughby Yes, it would, but it's largely unknown exactly to what extent such ritual sacrifices were carried out. This is the problem with fictional accounts, especially movies and shows like Vikings, since they get embedded in our minds, even if on a rational level we realize they are fictitious. These sacrifices are not mentioned in that many texts, and it would be a major leap of faith to declare the few sources we have as truthful. Christians in particular would be tempted to exaggerate or even make up negative details about the old beliefs in order to justify their christening campaigns.

[@matt.willoughby]

@@meadish You're right of course, it's impossible to have an objective view of the past, but that's just history. There are mountains of evidence of ritual sacrifice. How often and under what circumstances they took place is unknown but both ritual animal and human ritual slaughter is well attested

[@AngelosGT]

Everyone's ancestors were pagans, regardless of where you are from.

[@cecileroy557]

@@meadish Thanks - that makes total sense.

[@tortveter3385]

The kings of the viking age Sweden or Svearige, when going Viking, they could by law require rowers for the ships along the coast. This law was named"roslagen", directly translated the law of rowers. From this the slavs derived "ros" or "rus" and then Russia as the Swedes started dominating the land. Tor.

[@g.dalfleblanc63]

7 months ago left a comment here about my Varangian DNA which was passed to me through one of my mother's X chromosomes. Recently by chance I left a comment on a video on the 2nd Mongolian invasion of Hungary as I had been matched with members of the Arpad dynasty in particular Andrew II with the longest uninterrupted chain being 15 cM long. The next video that played was this (by the same channel), and I saw my first comment lol. Anyway I found out elsewhere Andrew II's mother was Agnes-Anna de Châtillon, and she was Byzantine (of Antioch). I wonder where my strong Varangian DNA comes from, lol.

[@neko3darcherychannel125]

Rus means paddle. I hope I helped ;)

[@tompabay8721]

❤️👍👍👍

[@Natyadasi]

I think the Rus were not 100% scandinavian, but already mixed with slavic and finnish tribes one or two generations before when they were invited to rule Kiev

[@DougShoeBushcraft]

great grampa!

[@lordmorgan2365]

Nice, conclusive proof documentation, this world, and no other is of Midgards Legacy, not Heavens, ( Archons - Tares).

[@momsfordemocracy]

I must say that Vikings were the true ride or die homies. Lol. These guys were crazy.

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

They were nuts.

[@jfgjgjhgj]

You spelled Mongols wrong. LOL!!

[@babyyoda0U812]

Not the same without you narrating...thumbs up though of course

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

You don't like the pro narrator?

[@babyyoda0U812]

@@RealCrusadesHistory no he's not as captivating as you...sorry just got used to you and the powerful guitar rifts !!!

[@ihaka439]

The pro doesn't have the crusader spirit he's merely a mercenary he will flee in the heat of battle

[@sergioleone3583]

@@babyyoda0U812 I agree with you, and love ihaka Hearty's comment here!

[@tylerchapman9234]

Olga was made the patron saint of Kiev

[@wrecktitudemedia6514]

I love you Queen Olga!

[@SonofDiablo97]

Slavic, Finnic and Baltic tribes mix with the Swede Vikings or Varangians and the Kievan Rus' rulers we're of Swede and Slavic ancestry and possibly Finnic too and then Byzantine Greek throw in the mix

[@Silver_Prussian]

Uhh no the it was just slavs the inly mixing was between the ruling class aka scandinavian and slavic, the people who lived in the kievan rus werent just slavs however they didnt mix they remained separate people to this day, why do think the baltics are still separate nations

[@rayzas4885]

No the slavic tribes absorbed all of the other tribes in the eastern slavic countries

[@julioheath4213]

the kievan russ was founded for oleg of novgorod ¬¬

[@KrokoDildos]

According to the legend. In which dozens of inconsistencies. Prophetic Oleg is as legendary as Ragnar Lodbrok.

[@julioheath4213]

@@KrokoDildosthere is evidence that he attacked constantinople that I don't think is a legend

[@KrokoDildos]

@@julioheath4213 There is no mention of this in Byzantium. For that, about Askold, whom he killed, they wrote about a campaign against Byzantium.

[@g.dalfleblanc63]

I never expected to have a very strong DNA input from the Varangians, I expected Danish as this is what the tests of other members of my family have taken. They go back about 20% Danish Viking, while I got 30% Varangian. I did inherit a different X chromosome though, while my brothers and sisters got the other one from our mother.

[@Durzo1259]

I've seen a few YT channels where people ordered ancestry tests from 5 or 6 different genetic ancestry companies, all giving them different results, only staying in the general European ballpark.

[@g.dalfleblanc63]

@@Durzo1259 People need to take specific tests. I match 493 Varangian Vikings who were buried in Kyiv and Byzantium (modern day Istanbul). Or match their Y DNA to specific individuals. My closest with a genetic distance of 1 are: Pasgen ap Urien, King of Gwyr. William Ker (one of William Wallace's closest friends.) Sir John ap Thomas (Herbert's of Coldbrook)

[@_.Musashi._]

@@g.dalfleblanc63 what kind of test you make

[@valdimarerlendsson6910]

Bruh its around thousand years ago millions of people are related to these vikings

[@g.dalfleblanc63]

@@valdimarerlendsson6910 Yes millions do have them as ancestors, but how much of their DNA do those people have? I beat 93% of everyone tested in a database of 12 million. Stop being a jealous imbecile, tell me something cool about yourself.

[@DevoteeofThunor]

Fun fact Rurik,Oleg,Igor of Kiev, and Sviatoslav 1 were all staunch pagans that never converted so don't twist history. Also the Scandinavians were definitely not illiterate they had the runic scripts which are absolutely a writing system

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

I never said they converted.

[@nightrunner3701]

Proud of your child sacrifice hereitage?

[@DevoteeofThunor]

@@RealCrusadesHistory I never said you did

[@ChristianMChristian]

Fun fact: the Cyrillic alphabet still used today (please correct me if I’m wrong) was instituted by Saint Cyril, who converted all the Rus only a century after the events of the video. Also, where does the (fake) conversion of the Khazars fit into this narrative?

[@DevoteeofThunor]

@@ChristianMChristian Vladimir 1 was the one who ordered the Rus to convert he was the son of Sviatoslav 1

[@dannythomson5239]

the name "Rus" stems from the red or ginger hair.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

yep. the "leader" nutcase conspiracy weirdos are fixated with it.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

ginger chan Genghis Khan same thing.

[@andoapata2216]

Or skin, nordic peoples tend to get quite red under the sun ;)

[@dannythomson5239]

@@andoapata2216 good thinking my friend. i can confirm we go very red lol in my 50yrs i have never had a sun tan.

[@appleratpipe]

@@andoapata2216 keep it up cringe apologist

[@Marbo12f]

This is the first video amongst a dozen to note that a bunch of people inviting viking raiders to rule over them sounds a little sus. Maybe be a little history being written by the victors there.

[@b.r.holmes6365]

Vikings never took slaves. They just rescued women and gold from villages which experienced spontaneously combustion

[@mattweir9674]

Nah, my Norse ancestors just built different 😏💪

[@ThatShitGood]

Nordic people are built to rule 🗿

[@sebe2255]

@@mattweir9674 Tbf the people that left to rule somewhere are more likely to be the ancestors of the people in that somewhere else

[@jimovergaard1254]

Swedish and Fins are Jutes, Angles are Anglos and Norweigans as well. Sweds went east, Danes/Norwegians went down to the locations of even Mesopotamia. Saxons are Norse and are Germanic all have the same beliefs with some differences (Odinism and Wodenism). All Norse traded around all Eurasia and north Africa and the dates are found from Mammoth Tusks. Look at ancient Farthic and then look at other languages. The Germanic stretched from outside the Franks to the slavic regions.

[@MrMackievelli]

Jutes are Danes, like the Geats. Swedes were Goths, Goets and Rus, Fins I can't remember.

[@user-xp5to1gz1o]

Что за ахинея. )))

[@alexsokolovsky1873]

I believe angels are not even Scandinavian, they were a German tribe.

[@MrMackievelli]

@@alexsokolovsky1873 Scandinavians are mostly Germanic. The ugric and finnic people are the non-Germanic groups in Scandinavia.

[@alexsokolovsky1873]

@@MrMackievelli Scandinavians belong to North German branch of Germanic peoples. Jutes are one of the tribes that eventually became Danish. While Angeles were from a west Germanic peoples. (like their more famous nabours the Saxons)

[@grahammcfelin340]

The the Russ are Russians were encouraged to build their first city and capital here. The regions around Kyiv is the original homeland of the Russ or rus tribes ,Russians existed here from prehistoric time over 20,000 years .

[@thepokemontrainer6094]

I believe that Ukrainian and Russia are amazing countries, I avoid all the brutality and cruelty that is happening right now. I love to look at their amazing history and their pop culture that is just as awesome as Chinese pop culture and Japanese pop culture.

[@jacquesstrapp3219]

The "brutality" you are avoiding will determine the future of the country. It is history in the making and should not be ignored.

[@matt.willoughby]

Russia is attacking their neighbour as we read this, they are killing ordinary Ukrainians in their homes. You cannot and should not ignore this fact.

[@E.C.2]

Russia presently is vehemently anti-Catholic with crushing poverty and appealing abortion rate.

[@TB-bb6kb]

Yeah that is a culture of bloody murderers Russia and Ukraine two sons of the same mother During second war they had kill over 7million people in most brutal inhuman way Barbaric breed

[@inthedeadhours]

@@jacquesstrapp3219 they're probably like 12. look at their sn. let em be innocent a while longer

[@sparrowsbewertungen6930]

Ukraine? Has nothing to do with a nationality btw

[@triggerboy85v59]

That’s right

[@withoutwords8136]

tribes who formed Ukraine

[@sparrowsbewertungen6930]

@@withoutwords8136 slavic Tribes calling themselves "Rus"

[@withoutwords8136]

@@sparrowsbewertungen6930 not all of them, did it only those who lived near Chernihov, Pereyaslav and Kiev

[@sparrowsbewertungen6930]

@@withoutwords8136 well noone called himself Ukrainian Those territories in ukraine that were not rus ... were mongol parts , later retaken lol

[@SebastianGonzalez-bt1wg]

The russ are indoeuropean they are huns scythians diferent names same people . The slavs are not danish

[@PUARockstar]

Rus with a single s

[@marijanstankovic8036]

Slavs are not Huns. Hungarians are descendants of Huns.

[@ryder_thompson]

come on the Vikings didn’t found Ukraine nor Russia… how possibly could they. Maybe it’s time for the Slavs to invite Norsemen again to rule upon them , cause certainly they are still not capable of doing that…

[@AbduvohidOdiljonov]

Truth is bitter.

[@Puchiaca69]

Vikings they have no money

[@igorkushyna3086]

Glory to Kievan Rus'⚔⚔

[@user-zw8ld8nt5f]

Kievan Rus never existed. What is called «Kievan Rus» is a time period of Russia, actually. How much can you explain? Therefore, who do you wish victory to? 😃It's funny.

[@TheOlgaSasha]

​@@user-zw8ld8nt5fRUS existed much more earlier than ruzzia appeared. Kiev is 1500 y.o. Moscow is only 850 y.o. Kiev, Chernigov, Pereyaslav, Galich etc. were most ancient cities of RUS and those cities are still in modern Ukraine

[@user-zw8ld8nt5f]

@@TheOlgaSasha Во-первых, не факт, что Киеву 1500 лет. Во-вторых, даже если бы и так, что с того? К тому же, а где в вашем списке Новгород, Смоленск, Ростов, Суздаль? Или это не города древней Руси, а? В чём, собственно, суть ваших претензий не улавливаю.

[@marijanstankovic8036]

@@TheOlgaSasha Novgorod and Stara Ladoga are older that Kiev. All of them were part of same country, Rus or Russia. Word "Ukraine" came much later. Ukraine was never a country until 1992. Russia, Ukraine and Belarus will be one country again.

[@leonardok9699]

Whats the song name at 5:00???!

[@jondoealoe]

Ra, Re, Ri, Ro, and Ru are root words for REd in RA, HeRA, HoRI, ROse, JeRUsalem, HoRUs, RUssian, and over half of the languages on earth. The RU in Russ means Red.

[@marijanstankovic8036]

No, in most Slavic languages "Rus" means Blonde. Check in Google Translate.

[@hakanliljeberg790]

Sweden had a great influence on Russia about 1000-1200 years ago. It was common that in the elite of Kyiv-Rus or Novgorod -Rus that they had one, two or more swedish ancestors/relatives. As late as 14th c icelandic scribes called Rus area for "The great/big Sweden". Common cultural features still exists. F.ex. in eastern Sweden when older people see a black cat they still spit three times over left shoulder to stop misfortunes to happen, exactly what they do in Russia...Other similarites is a sacrifice to Tomte/Nisse or farmspirit, in Russia it´s called Domevoi. Both people used to put steel in cradle or threshold to stop Trolls or Lezji(treepeople) to steal the children...

[@Capcarap333]

Russia didn’t exist thousands years, Name Russia came to existence in 1721. This story is based on legends not historical facts. Too bad is spreading myths.

[@user-zw8ld8nt5f]

@@Capcarap333 Вот вы эти самые мифы как раз и распространяете. А России тысяча лет. Факт.

[@Capcarap333]

Kyiv Ruś has nothing to do with Muscovia, Novgorod that’s a legend, archeological findings place origins of Novgorod after Kyiv glorious times. Ruś is not todays Russia, Peter 1 only in 18 century adopted fraudulently Greek name Rossia for Moscovia. Ruś it is nowadays Ukraine.

[@user-zw8ld8nt5f]

@@Capcarap333 Хватит врать уже. У вас ни слова правды нет. Всё это разбивается просто.

[@Capcarap333]

@@user-zw8ld8nt5f правда колёт очи

[@ssmatthews6798]

Basically the vikings have claim on Russia and Ukraine. Lets go claim that land in the best Putin "spirit".

[@lostplanet1931]

So sweden belong to russia too?

[@NUMMEHARBEN]

@@lostplanet1931 No, the opposite!

[@Hello-xh3rx]

As a Russian lets go, it will be an interesting fight

[@sebe2255]

@@NUMMEHARBEN You could make the case either way. Just say that the Ruriks were actually also the true rulers of Sweden

[@rayzas4885]

You mean the vikings that were absorbed by the Russian population?

[@abrandon123z]

So from what im understanding people from russia and Ukraine are descendents from Sweden

[@user-nj1ev1pm3q]

Only Russians are descendants of Swedes, Ukrainians are descendants of Poles.

[@TheOlgaSasha]

​@@user-nj1ev1pm3qUkrainians are not descendants of Poles. It is nonesense. Modern so-called "russians" are in fact a mix of moscowians, novgorodians and 30 other not Slavic (Turkic, Ugro-Finnic etc) peoples which were officially called "Russia" only in times of Peter I in 18th century. Kiev was and remains "the mother of Rus' cities" (as it was always called in chronicles)

[@marijanstankovic8036]

@@TheOlgaSasha Rus is Russia. So called "Ukrainians" are mixture of Russians, and minorities in today Ukraine (Hungarians, Poles, Bulgarians, etc...). There was never a "Ukraine" country until 1991.

[@jantegner36]

The word "rus" comes from the swedish word "rorsman" (the man who steers the ship). It was interpreteded as "rus-man", which is why the swedish viking became known as the "rus". The area in eastern Sweden where most vikings came from (as the arrows in the movie show) is known as Roslagen still today. So Rus-sians are just swedes wannabees... 😂

[@Kuriver]

In fact, Sweden is still called "Ruotsi" in Finnish and "Roots" in Estonian, as Roslagen would have been the closest part of Sweden with most contact to the Finns, there are millenia long contacts between these areas. Funnily enough, the modern name for Russia in Finnish in "Venäjä" which comes from the Venedi, a west slavic tribe on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea ("ryssä" is a derogatory term). Maybe this gives a hint from where (and when) the slavic people came to Russia. During the time of the Rus, northern Russia was pretty much Finnic speaking but the influence of Christianity (old Church slavic) caused these people to change their language during the next centuries. The problem with history often is that modern concepts and borders of nations are projected to the past.

[@_A.d.G_]

Yes, Peter the Great really wanted to be Swed.

[@JesusChristISTHEONETRUEGOD]

Rus is from Rurik which is who the people were named after.

[@1N73RC3P7OR]

Wasn't Sweden a wanna-be empire that got absolutely wrecked by the Russians?

[@user-mh6pz8rq9d]

Interesring! Never heard of that. In school we were taught that Rus was simply a name of Rurik's tribe

[@user-wh2mt1mh7t]

Русь в повести временньІх лет бьІла извесна еще до Рюрика, -В год 6360 (852), индикта 15, когда начал царствовать Михаил, стала прозываться Русская земля. Узнали мы об этом потому, что при этом царе приходила Русь на Царьград, И вся ета история о том што рюрик принес название "Русь" придумали только из одного неправильно переведенного слова "пояши" в летописи)))

[@user-zw8ld8nt5f]

Скажу в двух словах. Во-первых, не была Русь, как государство, до прихода варягов. Во-вторых, а что слово *«пояши»* должно по-вашему означать, как «правильно» оно должно переводиться?

[@user-wh2mt1mh7t]

@@user-zw8ld8nt5f Во всех остальньІх случаях слово пояши переведено как приняли, -приняли по себе всю русь также как напимер приняли правление в руси в своих наделах сьІньІ ВолодьІмьІра Мономаха а младшенькому-уродцу у которого маменька половчанка отпрввили куда подальше с глаз долой в леса залешанские.

[@user-wh2mt1mh7t]

@@user-zw8ld8nt5f ВьІ плохо знаете истрию Руси, на византию походами ходили а государственности небьІло))) гардарика -страна городов (змиевьІе вальІ протяженностю 2000км) существовали но государства небьІло. А как вьІ обясните што например о всех достоверно извесньІх описаниях Киевских князьях линии рюрика о них описания как о русинах а не как о вьІходцах из скандинавов.

[@user-wh2mt1mh7t]

А "пояши" во всех других случаях переведено как приняли , -приняли по себе всю русь также например как приняли всю русь дети ВолодЬІмьІра мономаха.

[@user-wh2mt1mh7t]

​​@@user-zw8ld8nt5f А тут еще например Кирило тот што Кирило и Мефодий когда прибьІл в Корсунь то тогда он видел евангелие написаньІе на "роський мови" и общался с роським монахом, предствляешь себе такое, руси с ваших слов нет а письменность и книги есть)))

[@penkola]

All Vikings were blond and people started calling them RUS, because on Bulgarian rus means blond.

[@shar3066]

Not true. Even in my family some have brown eyes, dark skin and it's just a myth all are blond.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

​@@shar3066 You have Roman blood, brother, and that's weird

[@RytheCodplayer]

⁠@@user-cg2tw8pw7jThere are plenty of first hand accounts of red and brown haired Vikings.

[@rayzas4885]

​@@user-cg2tw8pw7j Roman blood is far more glorious than viking blood

[@alovekok9044]

​@@rayzas4885 What's wrong with viking blood?

[@rursus8354]

Being a Swede I always thought that these forefathers are despicable and disgusting, but this presentation also makes them ludicrously despicable and disgusting. I thank you for that. I have some fantasy authoring in my mind.

[@paronzoda]

Swe Power

[@zteaxon7787]

It is not vikings that enslaved the slavic peoples. The slavic peoples ARE vikings. J3ws enslaved the slavs and traded them. This account is a fiction to scapegoat vikings for the crimes of Jewry. The viking population of Ukraine was enslaved by J3wish slavers operating from their Byzantine Judeo-christian empire.

[@paronzoda]

You are despicable and disgusting

[@akrobatish]

are you ok?

[@raphaelostrowski6336]

You sound soft

[@par-eriklof7723]

🇸🇪💙💛🇺🇦

[@NUMMEHARBEN]

This can be the reason why we got the same colours in the flags.

[@hejsapo1572]

Haha tyst 🇸🇪💕🇷🇺

[@Bolghar_wolf]

Rurik (Lachyn) is from the Bulgar Dulo clan, descendant of Kubrat and Attila. He was never a viking. It's all written in Djagfar Tarihi. Modern Ukraine is on the territory of Old Great Bulgaria (Urus Bulgar) , which in the 7th century divided into Khazaria, Avaria, Danube Bulgaria and Black Bulgaria (with Kyiv capital). In the 9th century after a Civil War Black Bulgaria (Kara Bulgar) divided into Volga Bulgaria (Ak Bulgar) and Kyiv Rus (Urus).

[@Bolghar_wolf]

@Jotaro97 My brother in Christ, literally all evidence points to it. VIkings never used the trident tamga. The trident (Baltavar) was the arms of Dulo clan and a symbol of Bulgar statehood. Also as I said above, it's all written in Djagfar Tarihi, the lineage of Rurik, Attila etc. Half of these chronicles were destroyed by NKVD but we are lucky that the other half was saved and was kept in the so called Tatar SSR.

[@ionelflorea2116]

@@Bolghar_wolf Rurik literarly comes from the Swedish Norse name Hrodrick, as does Olga come from Helga

[@Bolghar_wolf]

@@ionelflorea2116 Helga/Olga name is Uldjai. Everything is written in Djagfar Tarihi, check it man

[@Bolghar_wolf]

@Jotaro97 there is big reasons and everyone who has actually read it knows it

[@DimitarFCBM]

Djagfar Tarihi is one of the most unreliable historical sources in history

[@IvanaKupala]

Kyivan Rus