Vikings Of The East: Igor & The Kievan Rus'

in the year 913 near gorgon on the southeastern coast of the Caspian Sea in modern-day Iran a vast fleet of 500 warships came into view with the shocked and terrified traders and townspeople arrayed by the shore they'd had their fair share of Raiders over the years riding down from the Caucasus from the steppe lands to the north and across the Persian Plains from the East but it immediately became apparent that this was different they were ships unlike any of the locals had seen before small exceptionally mobile mastered war guns floated by snarling dragon heads manned a strong northern oarsmen filled with ax-wielding Raiders the leaders were Scandinavians the rest and amalgamation of Scandinavian and swath and they had travelled for hundreds of miles along the vast networks of rivers in the Eastern Europe to raid the shores of the Caspian Sea their Overlord Igor had recently in 912 been crowned as the king of the kiev and ruse a huge area encompassing parts of modern day Russia and much of the Ukraine and surrounding countries at the time of his death he ruled over the largest state ever since the 8th century Scandinavians have not only looked to the West for expansion to the east as well whereas opportunistic young Danes and Norseman tended to look westward to Great Britain France and the North Sea - at first trade and later reigned and settle in order to make a better life for themselves outside of their barren overpopulated homerooms the people of modern-day Sweden had long looked eastward across the Baltic Sea to Finland the Baltic States and Russia the opportunities of their own and as the years went by he gradually began to look further and further afield in the West when Scandinavians went raiding they were known as Vikings which derives from the old norse term the sea Raider or tolerate in the East however they were known as Ferengi ins which likely derives from the old norse word of allah meaning pledge and gangee Phoenix sword companion the large majority population of slavic peoples who lived in these lands seem to have merged somewhat with the rankings and generally seem to have form the ruling elite together they began to forge a new distinct culture different from the Slavic tribes which bordered their lands and different from the Scandinavians to the north large cities were founded in places such as Novgorod and Kiev were scandinavian customs gradually over the generations began to give way to a new amalgamation of Slav and scrambling the raw rocket dynasty allegedly founded by the semi-legendary heroic Prince Rorick in the second half of the ninth century and solidified by his successor Oleg established themselves firmly the masters of the ruse people and began to rule of roughly centralized state ruled by local strongman based on tribute when the next ruler Igor came to the throne in 913 he inherited a huge loud mass of wild river system in towns still largely chaotic but all pledging allegiance to the overall ruler at Kiev the Society of the ruse was undoubtedly marshal nature still awash in the Scandinavian culture of their forefathers they worshipped the Norse gods and undertook the ancient Scandinavian funerary practice of ship burial as evidenced by first-hand accounts which of our Muslim travelers such as even flatland during the 10th century and also by substantial hard archaeological evidence the 913 expedition into the Caspian Sea was probably the furthest and most ambitious voyage the Scandinavians ever undertaken it's unclear whether eagle was personally involved although as ruler and would likely have given consent and patronized the expedition the Raiders loaded up on huge amounts of loot at Baku in modern-day Azerbaijan and harried the Iranian coastline for weeks until finally on their way home they were defeated by the carts themselves a strong tribal confederation of Asiatic step known as ruled over a substantial Empire to the east of the roost and held a monopoly over the new creative trade routes of the region the roofs continued to raid all over their world but the biggest prize of all they directly to the south of them over the Black Sea at Constantinople known to them as Mick Lagarde long the center of world civilization Constantinople now modern-day Istanbul was the capital of the Byzantine Empire the unbroken continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire it was a vast city surrounded by the incredibly strong Theodosian walls which have never been breached in 941 Igor at the head of a large fleet arrived seemingly out of nowhere along with a huge army greater armies the namma tried her but despite a valiant first attack the Byzantines held them up they attacked again in 944 and their small highly maneuverable long ships were difficult to deal with ultimately however the fleet was destroyed by Greek fire an ancient and highly effective technique long-held secret by the Byzantines in the aftermath Igor's position was still so strong the Byzantines made a truce with him on favourable terms meanwhile in 943 another more successful raid on the customers this time the ruse captured the city of Barca modern-day US v Jung where they stayed for several months massacring the local population and amassing a substantial plunder before dysentry forced them to head back now ships laden with massive amounts of loot and slaves this time however they made it back without cars our involvement who themselves would be next on the agenda the 9:43 raid was likely just one of many at the tunnel and simply represented the largest and most worthy of conically eventually under evil successor status laughs large cause our cities such as circle and Kerch began to be plundered and destroyed which had the long-term effect of destabilizing the cars our cabinet until it was eventually defeated entirely by the ruse over the coming decades in 1945 in a manner perhaps befitting the harsh and brutal nature of his world eagle was captured and gruesomely killed by the dragoons subject Slavic track according to the primary chronicle of Bruce after attempting to tax the driver unit in too harsh a manner they captured Eagle and tied him down to two bent over birch trees which were then released and allowed to straighter which tearing his body apart and killing him instantly his wife Olga upon hearing the news wiped out the devlins entirely in retribution burning many alive with buildings enslaving the rest before consolidating her power by ruling as regent for her young son svetislav although was a recent convert to christianity and while the young heir to the throne continued to worship the Norse gods of his father more and more roofs became interested in the Eastern Orthodox faith the Byzantium just like the Vikings in the West who had settled in Great Britain and France eventually became Catholic the varangians of the east soon became influenced by the Byzantine culture but they had first attacked but later learned from eventually in part adopted sparta Slav continued the ruse policy of the persistently raid in attacking pretty much all of the people's around later earning the title of the brain being remembered is one of the greatest kings of the European history the allied with the Byzantines at times and fought against the mitosis as well as waging successful campaigns against the bulgar Empire and the Kazakh argonite why is death / Islam ruled over one of the most powerful states in Europe and arguably the largest under his descendant Vladimir the great in the late 10th century the roofs gradually became eastern orthodox christians a longtime allies of Byzantium before eventually over the centuries they gradually evolved into the modern day nation states of Russia and Ukraine unlike practically any other dynasty from the early Middle Ages the Rockets allegedly survived as rulers in Russia in an unbroken line of succession Prince heroic all those centuries of the go until finally they were replaced by the Romanovs in the 17th century cadet branches of the family also ruled all over Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages those contributing to the formation of many of the modern-day nation-states area you [Music]

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Id: YvPSa8XoHDI

Length: 8min 11sec (491 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 01 2017

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[u/A_Lazko]

Overall, very nice work. Couple of remarks though.

1. Igor, Sviatoslav had their Scandinavian name Ingvar and Sveinald. More can be read in the book "Ukraine: Gates of Europe" by Harvard Proessor Serhii Plokhiy.
2. Currrent Russia has nothing to do with the Kiev Rus. Moscow was discovered as a wooden village on the swamps long after the best days of Kiev Rus. Moscow started growing because it became Ulus Jochi, a Commandant's Tax Collecting hub for the Golden Horde starting 1240.