Varangians

of scholarly debate for some time. Mainly this has been framed under the Normanist question. This inquiry asks, did the Varangians organize political and social order in the Rus’ lands, or was there a sociopolitical infrastructure in place upon arrival? Eve Levin’s article “Childbirth in Pre-Petrine Russia: Canon Law and Popular Traditions” describes the connection between the Slavic pagan rituals and Orthodox Christian theology present during childbirth in medieval Russia, using the term “dvoeverie” which means dual-belief. Does Levin’s article also help us answer the Normanist question? This essay will argue it does, and along with the Primary Chronicle it also provides evidence for the anti-Normanist…

Polyanians lived trade-route that connected Varangians and the Greeks were available. This route then proceeds along the Dnieper River. In this time the rivers really made an important role in development of the Slavic civilizations. These were made as a means of transportation, communication, trade route, source of livelihood, ect. St. Andrew, brother of Peter follows the flows of Dnieper River. Because of his desire to go to Rome he went through the mouth of Dnieper River and saw hills and he…

The early Russian peoples, known as Varangians or “Rus”, first made contact with the Caucasus region in their invasion of Persia in the 10th century. Unlike other peoples like the Ossetians and Kumyks of the Western Caucasus, Chechens never accepted the Varangians attempts to pacify the region. This can largely be attributed to the fact that Chechen society based itself not on a feudal and hierarchical system, but instead around a patriarchal clan structure. Without the ability to make…

sacrifice that was used in North West Russia. The Viking settled in Ireland in 795 AD. They settled in Scotland between 9th and 12th century. I think vikings did more than raid and pillage.Since the Vikings mostly farmed, they must have grown a variety of foods right? They grow grain to make flour porridge and ale, and vegetables such as beans, cabbages, onions. They used animal manure to keep the ground fertile. Their animal farm included animals such as sheep, pigs, goats, geese, chickens, and…

runes, and the Younger Futhark. Rus: A group of people living in the Middle Ages who founded the eastern European cities of Russia, Belarus and Ruthenia. S Saga: Translated as “What is said” it generally refers to old Germanic and Nordic history. It contains the stories of the Viking raids the Norse leaders and their battles. Svartalfheim: From the Norse Mythology, it refers to the home of creatures called the Svartálfar. V Valhalla: From the Norse mythology, it refers to a great hall inhabited…

(His story is told in the Grettis Saga). He was considered a troublemaker and a bully and when a man called Grettir Asmundarson was forced to exile on the Island of Drangey in Iceland, Þorbjörn led numerous attempts to capture and kill him, because his arrival on the island led for his ownership to be displaced. The saga tells us that Þorbjörn was mistreated by his stepmother while a child. He eventually beat her to death after she caused him to lose one eye, after an argument with him. There’s…

assigned to Scandinavian lands only (modern day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), but also to the territories under North Germanic supremacy, mainly the Danelaw, including Scandinavian York, the managerial center of the remains of the “Kingdom of Northumbria”, even parts of Mercia, and lastly East Anglia. Viking navigators paved roads to new lands to the north, west and east, which resulted in the foundation of many independent settlements in the Shetland, Orkney, and Faroe Islands Iceland;…

that may be derived from from the Latin vicus: a place, market place,village, settlement, camp- as in Slesvic or Schleswig, originally Sliaswic, the town on the Schlei River. In which case the name would mean "men of the camp," "the settlers" or the like. Among the many other possible derivations are vik meaning bay, vig meaning battle,vige meaning to withdraw or escape. The linguist Fritz Askeberg has suggested the masculine viking, meaning a sea warrior on a long voyage from home. Even its…