14th century AD Varangian Guard in Byzantine service (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Varangians were Viking conquerors, traders and settlers, mostly from present-day Sweden, who settled in the territories of present-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine from the 8th and 9th centuries

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians

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