Settlers in Eastern Europe

[Johan]

Originally posted by Khimaira
[BI can't believe that Rus' (Swedish tribes bear so much resemblance to Atlants who lived and once upon a time just disappeared and hid all the traces of their existence.)
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huh, Roslagen is the name of the coast of northern Svealand.. (Thats Rus Law in english.)

Still plenty of references to Ros/Rus in area places around here.

I know a lot of documentation has been lost in our eastern colonies over the last milennia due to Mongol, Tsarist and Soviet occupations, but this is almost funny

 

[Johan]

Originally posted by Woreczko
This thread reminds me that there was also Norman Theory of polish origins. IIRC it was thrown away in the beginnings of XXc. as a bullshit. Now polish historiography admits that there were Vikings in Poland but only as mercenaries, nothing more and it`s astonishingly resembling russian path of thinking. I wonder what do foreign historians think about it? Maybe it`s obvious for everyone but Poles, that Poland was ruled by a viking dynasty?

I've never heard about swedes ruling in Poland before Sigismund.

 

[Johan]

Originally posted by szopen76
Well yes, I've written it already. It had a number of pirates of Scandinavian origin, but if they will be majority, then Chroniclers would have noticed it, wouldn't they?

Or probably the fact that slavs and scandinavians in that area were not really that different in that time and age?