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Vikings were amazingly influential in early modern history. They were the origins of Normans, who, quite apart from England and Northern France, founded success
by kitd 2y ago
Vikings were amazingly influential in early modern history. They were the origins of Normans, who, quite apart from England and Northern France, founded successful kingdoms in the Mediterranean. They were also the original European Russians (the name "Russia" derives from "people who row", = Vikings)
- Bluestein 2y agoIndeed. They are 'seminal', in many ways.-
- Bluestein 2y agoPS. Apparently, someone objects to - I gather - my use of "seminal" here ... (By which no pun - even given ample pillaging and raping by the vikings - was intended ...) I just meant they are influential, even genetically.-
- ionwake 2y agoThis is a weird half apology. You used seminal and it makes sense with all the raping - it’s a good pun tho clearly it is offending some. No need to pretend it wasn’t a pun tho mate
- gumby 2y agoRus was settled by people who migrated from what is now Sweden.
- havelhovel 2y ago> people who migrated from what is now Sweden a.k.a. vikings
- mantas 2y agoModern Sweden was only a part of origins of vikings. If it is known that those people are specifically Swedish vikings, then it makes sense to highlight that.
- fmbb 2y agoIt actually makes very little sense to “highlight” that in the context above. It would perhaps have been interesting to point out that that region of Sweden is called Roslagen today, and has been since those times.
- mantas 2y agoIf there are even more historical details known… The more precise it is, the better.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoThe land was already settled by slavic and finnic tribes, whose experience of this is lost to us. The norse made their own settlements and assumed rule over the existing groups. Eventually the norse and finnic groups had more or less fully assimilated with each other and into the local slavic population forming the rus'.
- dyauspitr 2y agoIf you go even further back, it was people from the Caucasus/modern day Ukraine that wiped out the male population of Europe and settled Europe. The same group of people that also branched off and settled in Iran and India. The speakers of PIE. Fast forward about 2000 years and the Scandinavians went back and assimilated with local tribes to form the Rus.
- kleton 2y agoIt's even what suomi call Sweden - ruotsi