Did Vikings Establish Rus? The Norman Controversy

January 5, 2024 Unipro2013main Historical, History, Russian History

<h2>Did Vikings Establish Rus? The Norman Controversy</h2> The modern countries of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, all claim descendance from an early medieval polity known as Rus. By 950, Rus was a nation centered around the city of Kiev, ruled by a Slavonic-speaking aristocracy. What happened before 950, and the origins of the Rus state, lay shrouded in mystery. Sources: Archaeological Evidence for Staraya Ladoga as an Early Scandinavian Emporium of the Global North – Natalja V. Grigorjeva A History of Russia(Seventh Edition) – Riasanovsky, Steinberg Genetic study of the Rurik Dynasty – Vladimir G. Volkov, Andrey N. Seslavin In Austrvegr – Marika Mägi On the origin of the name Rurik – A.V. Oleinichenko Міждисциплінарні гуманітарні студії Серія: Історичні науки. 2017. Вип. 3 New Data on the Ryurik Gorodishche near Novgorod – E.N Nosov Population Genomics of the Viking World – Margaryan et. al Rusernas rike – Mats G. Larsson Svear i Österviking – Holger Arbman The early Slavs – Pavel Markovich Dolukhanov The emergence of Rus, 750-1200 – Simon Franklin, Jonathan Shepard The Historiography of Normanist and Anti-Normanist theories on the origin of Rus’ – Roman Zakharii The Primary Chronicle – Anonymous The Rus in Arabic Sources – Thorir Jonsson Hraundal The Varangians – Sverrir Jakobsson The Vikings in the East – Fjodor Androshchuk Viking Rus – Wladyslaw Duczko Was there a Riurikid Dynasty in Early Rus? – Donald Ostrowski https://cleasby-vigfusson-dictionary.vercel.app/word/fors <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="KmMDN0phCn"><a href="https://indo-european.eu/2019/07/vikings-vikings-vikings-influx-of-eastern-ancestry-in-the-whole-baltic-iron-age/">Vikings, Vikings, Vikings! “eastern” ancestry in the whole Baltic Iron Age</a></blockquote> <iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);" title="“Vikings, Vikings, Vikings! “eastern” ancestry in the whole Baltic Iron Age” — Indo-European.eu" src="https://indo-european.eu/2019/07/vikings-vikings-vikings-influx-of-eastern-ancestry-in-the-whole-baltic-iron-age/embed/#?secret=L6ICxLwxE5#?secret=KmMDN0phCn" data-secret="KmMDN0phCn" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no">

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
5:07 Meaning of ‘Rus’
12:03 Origin of ‘Rus’
19:56 A Nordic Dynasty?
23:44 Scandinavian colonization
29:41 Scandinavian state involvement
34:21 Conclusion
Credit to : Baltic Empire

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