The Kievan-Rus: Ukraine's Viking Founders - DOCUMENTARY

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  • Опубликовано: 23 апр 2022
  • In this documentary, we look at the origins of the Kievan Rus. The Vikings who assailed the shores of Britain and France were mostly Norwegian or Danish. But Viking adventurers from Sweden were drawn east, to the Baltic Sea and beyond. What drove their wanderlust was the dirhem, a high-grade silver coin. In the 9th century, the Caliphate’s wealthy markets teemed with luxury goods. These coins found their way to Sweden, and sparked the curiosity of enterprising chiefs. On the Swedish island of Gotland, vast silver hoards filled with dirhems confirm the activity of Swedish Vikings trading and plundering in the Baltic.
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    Sources:
    -Ferguson, Robert - The Vikings, (Penguin, 2010)
    -Haywood, John - Northmen: The Viking Saga, AD 793-1241, (Head of Zeus, 2020)
    -Ibn-Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travelers in the Far North, trans Paul Lunde, (Penguin, 20212)
    -Logan, F. Donald - The Vikings in History, (Routledge, 1991)
    -The Poetic Edda - Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes, trans. Jackson Crawford, (Hackett, 2015)
    -Plokhy, Serhii - The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, (Basic, 2021)
    Animated maps by Daniel Weiss
    Narrated by Tom Wylde
    Written and edited by J Stephen Roberts
    #Vikings #KievanRus #ProjectUkraine
    End credits song: "Isabel" by Roman Lion:
    • Isabel - Roman Lion

Комментарии • 351

  • @RealCrusadesHistory
    @RealCrusadesHistory  2 года назад +29

    Take a tour through the Viking Age: ruclips.net/video/9tK4tFx7-sg/видео.html

    • @darthracer777
      @darthracer777 2 года назад +1

      RCH: What are your thoughts on The Albigensian Crusade? Catholics vs Cathars. It seemed to be as bloody as the other crusades. There's a video about it on the Warographics channel.
      It's amazing how people justified their actions back then. There was nothing Christlike about them.

    • @RealCrusadesHistory
      @RealCrusadesHistory  Год назад +1

      @@darthracer777 I did a doc on that one you might enjoy: ruclips.net/video/f8XEoAHfrhE/видео.html

    • @buddyrojek9417
      @buddyrojek9417 Год назад +1

      My middle name is Igor, I want 40 concubines and to pluck one for public display

    • @kdog543
      @kdog543 Год назад

      Also beads were found in archeology dig in viking lands that originated from middle east too. Shows an long trail of trading in deep trading and parts of Russia is to believe to be an land bridge to that place.

  • @tohaason
    @tohaason Год назад +49

    About the funeral ritual.. at that time the Scandinavians didn't burn their dead, they buried them (in ships, if possible). The "burn time", as it was called, was several centuries earlier. That alone tells that the described ritual was different from what was practiced in Scandinavia.

    • @LasseEklof
      @LasseEklof 22 дня назад

      Not quite true. The death rituals of the Viking Age have been investigated by many researchers in recent times. It has turned out that the funerals could go quite differently depending on which village you were in. In Mälardalen, for example, the vast majority of people have been cremated and small stone embankments were built over the pyres. In Finnveden in the interior of Småland, the dead were also burned, but here they built large mounds of earth over the remains. Even today, there are hundreds of such mass graves hidden among the Småland firs. In most of Skåne, the dead were buried without burning them. Different regions thus had completely different traditions.

    • @tohaason
      @tohaason 22 дня назад

      @@LasseEklof It makes sense that there would be variations in traditions, after all communities (those not close to waterways) would be pretty much isolated and do things differently (thus the ton of different dialects, particularly in Norway with all the mountains), but Sweden and even Denmark would have that too to various degrees.

  • @vergil7185
    @vergil7185 Год назад +5

    Such a great and interesting video! Thank you for your content!

  • @danieldmelniki8834
    @danieldmelniki8834 Год назад +5

    Grateful for this Playlist! @Kings and Generals & Company!!

  • @anonanonymous9085
    @anonanonymous9085 5 дней назад +3

    You gotta love Olha. Her stunt with birds burning down Korosten is probably the first arial raid that pre-dates Wright brothers 😅

  • @carlhakansson9719
    @carlhakansson9719 2 года назад +21

    Great video! 🇸🇪

  • @mandalorianactual1215
    @mandalorianactual1215 2 года назад +7

    Great video!

  • @enskovy
    @enskovy 2 года назад +11

    Great video : )

  • @HistoryandHeadlines
    @HistoryandHeadlines 2 года назад +12

    So far I have given a thumbs up to every video in this playlist and am looking forward to the others!

  • @toorajmansoori9084
    @toorajmansoori9084 3 месяца назад

    Thank you for video

  • @PurelyGoliath
    @PurelyGoliath Год назад +15

    Thanks for educating us, and bringing a smile to my face.

    • @RealCrusadesHistory
      @RealCrusadesHistory  Год назад +3

      Thank you!

    • @TacticalGoat
      @TacticalGoat Год назад +5

      Ukraine is Russua

    • @PurelyGoliath
      @PurelyGoliath Год назад +3

      @@TacticalGoat sure doesn’t look that way.

    • @d3vildoll666
      @d3vildoll666 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@PurelyGoliathlooks doesnt dictate facts. Rewriting history books doesn't help either.

    • @PurelyGoliath
      @PurelyGoliath 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@d3vildoll666 Rus civilization was founded in Kyiv, lol.

  • @Chriscs7
    @Chriscs7 Год назад +8

    You should put the year on topnright corner of the maps you show like kag do. Nice video

  • @rmp7400
    @rmp7400 Год назад

    Your theme melody is like a lit match🔥

  • @EasternRomanHistory
    @EasternRomanHistory 2 года назад +28

    Wow, this video is great. I think your narrator and editor was fantastic and always enjoy your videos Stephen. Great to have collaborated with everyone on this project.

    • @RealCrusadesHistory
      @RealCrusadesHistory  2 года назад +6

      Thanks Daniel! I'm looking forward to checking out your video as well!

  • @newsjunkie3000
    @newsjunkie3000 Год назад +8

    This reminds this of the movie The 13th Warrior!

  • @vladfomin7466
    @vladfomin7466 5 дней назад +3

    Rurik is as legendary and mythical as the dragons on the vikings' sails. Mentioned only in 1113 in the same source that tells the story of "tribes inviting vikings to rule over them". Most probably Nestor's or someone else's invention

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE 2 года назад +7

    A good video 👊🏻

  • @JUAN_OLIVIER
    @JUAN_OLIVIER 6 месяцев назад +3

    The Rus conquered the Slavs militarily and the Slavs conquered the Rus culturally in the end.

  • @detarver
    @detarver Год назад

    what previz did you use to create the 3d?

  • @blueanon8021
    @blueanon8021 11 месяцев назад +3

    I'm trying my best to learn more about the world it can get very difficult trying to remember everything and the different people and languages.

  • @missourimongoose8858
    @missourimongoose8858 2 года назад +18

    I've always wondered if the vikings ever ran into any zoastrians

    • @JoeSmith-sl9bq
      @JoeSmith-sl9bq Год назад

      No mystery- they would steal their gold.

    • @brianlevine1479
      @brianlevine1479 Год назад +5

      They traveled to Baghdad. May have met some there.

    • @yashvardhansingh1343
      @yashvardhansingh1343 Год назад +9

      zorastrians didnt much exist in Islamic era

    • @jtmoore662
      @jtmoore662 Год назад +4

      Im sure they did. I think they were in Iran most parts.

    • @cezar211091
      @cezar211091 9 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@yashvardhansingh1343they probably survived in small pockets in the Caucasus

  • @daliborperkovic3918
    @daliborperkovic3918 11 месяцев назад

    What are the paintings shown in the video?

  • @Boric78
    @Boric78 Год назад +34

    Always found it interesting the Swedes believed they came from the steppes in or near modern ukraine. They even thought Odin came from there. What is fascinating is that the Heruli ,a germanic migration era tribe, who had been under the domination of the Huns, it is alleged moved back to Sweden in the 5-6th century. They is some archaeological evidence for this. And where did the huns find these people ? As part of the Goth empire in the 360's - somewhere on the steppe near modern ukraine. Its possible the viking legends of asgard, odin, thor etc are some kind of racial memory of their own history or at least that of their chiefs.

    • @soiah
      @soiah Год назад +6

      There was no Goth Emprie, but there was a Got/Get one. It was the biggest nation of europe separated by Dnepr river in Geta/Gota and MasaGeta/MasaGota.
      They came from the Gota as preserved in the GotLand region name.

    • @Boric78
      @Boric78 Год назад

      @@snuurferalangur4357 How do you know what they believed ? There are no written sources - just by your own admission something written centuries later.

    • @Briguy1027
      @Briguy1027 Год назад +1

      Fascinating postulations. I suppose we'll never know, but ideas are definitely intriguing.

    • @jakeg3733
      @jakeg3733 Год назад +5

      It's even more interesting than that. Go back another 3000 to 4000 years. At that time, Europe and the middle East were populated by indigenous people, people that now only exist as a linguistic and genetic substrate in current populations. Anyway, the first Indo-Europeans were one people on the steppes speaking one language. From there they spread. To Europe, to Iran & Turkey, to India and China even. So the swedes are even more correct than they could have known. It's also interesting to note that Odin and many of the other Gods may have existed in some form in the mythology of these early Indo-Europeans

    • @Sashkotheweird
      @Sashkotheweird Год назад +1

      @@soiahDnipro (modern name of Borisfen)

  • @Kuriver
    @Kuriver Год назад +20

    Maybe the symbol of long boat is a bit confusing. The rivers could not be traversed by ships but the travellers had to change to smaller boats. So, any longboats travelling to Byzantine would have been built at the other end of the river route. So the route was an advanced system with posts to change mode of transport, to winter and to store items.

    • @jacquesstrapp3219
      @jacquesstrapp3219 Год назад +14

      Long ships were capable of navigating inland rivers including the Volga. They had a shallow draft and could operate in water that was only 1 meter deep. They were also light enough to be carried or pushed on rollers over portages.

    • @Kuriver
      @Kuriver Год назад +4

      @@jacquesstrapp3219 Do you have a source for this? The river systems included many rapids and there are documentary evidence of Rus traveling with "monoxyla" (lit. one log, a north Eurasian traditional dugout canoe, which was a resilient and light craft ideal for such journeys. It might be possible physically but not practical, as changing crafts at specific centres is more efficient.

    • @jacquesstrapp3219
      @jacquesstrapp3219 Год назад +17

      @@Kuriver My family comes from the Volga region. The Volga is huge. At it's widest and deepest it is over 3 km wide and 50 meters deep. At it's source it is almost 500 meters wide and 20 meters deep. This is easily navigable for long ships.
      The Varangians (Vikings) had a base at Ladoga. They would sail up the Volkhov River to lake Ilmen then up the Lovat River. They would then portage their long ships 3 km to the Volga River. It was easy sailing all the way to the Caspian Sea from there.
      I suggest you educate yourself by searching Varangians, longships and the Volga trade route before making any further comments.

    • @thierrybirs1385
      @thierrybirs1385 Год назад

      @@jacquesstrapp3219really it is like a movie in your mouth.thanks.

    • @user-mh6pz8rq9d
      @user-mh6pz8rq9d Год назад +2

      Well, Russians used ships called "ladya" for trading with the vikings and the Byzantine and they were designed like vikings' drakkars

  • @williamstorey5024
    @williamstorey5024 13 дней назад

    what is teh source for you statement at 2:16 timestamp about snorri describing homeland as being in the caucuses?

  • @Alsayid
    @Alsayid 2 месяца назад +1

    It would be so cool to discover a previously unknown recording of the history of Rus wars and events in the land that came to be Russia

  • @kimfleury
    @kimfleury 2 года назад +13

    I'd heard of the Silk Road but never looked for the trail. I had no idea it went through any Viking territory.

    • @MMArigo
      @MMArigo 2 года назад +1

      It didn’t

    • @E.C.2
      @E.C.2 Год назад

      I didn't know it either.

  • @WorldPeace-AdamNeira
    @WorldPeace-AdamNeira Год назад +3

    The TV Series "Vikings" brought me here.

    • @warl1x
      @warl1x 8 месяцев назад +1

      The way the Russians were shown in the series is terrible. Not only did they have Russian Christians before the baptism of Russia, but they also have Mongolian clothes

  • @LasloMestskyi
    @LasloMestskyi 20 дней назад

    The fun is that Bisantium (emperor Pheophil to Luis king of Frankia in 839 ad), arab, Persian monks have written chronicles about "Rus from Kyiv" merchants and raids to their lands even Before tale of "vikings coming to Ladoga in 862 ad". Furthermore, there is No evidences from archeologists, nor from chronicle that Novgorod was found at that time, but even the Ladoga was a small village.

  • @AlcantaraMC
    @AlcantaraMC 8 месяцев назад +11

    Hello from Novgorod.

  • @johnfast5852
    @johnfast5852 Год назад +7

    History has been mostly bloody, no matter what nationality or culture one comes from.

  • @jaydeister9305
    @jaydeister9305 2 года назад +30

    "It's delightful and exciting to know that my ancestors were pagan barbarians (barbarian pagans? take your pick!)."

    • @matt.willoughby
      @matt.willoughby Год назад +3

      Just pegans. Their practice ritual sacrifice is certainly barbaric though.

    • @meadish
      @meadish Год назад +6

      @@matt.willoughby Yes, it would, but it's largely unknown exactly to what extent such ritual sacrifices were carried out. This is the problem with fictional accounts, especially movies and shows like Vikings, since they get embedded in our minds, even if on a rational level we realize they are fictitious.
      These sacrifices are not mentioned in that many texts, and it would be a major leap of faith to declare the few sources we have as truthful. Christians in particular would be tempted to exaggerate or even make up negative details about the old beliefs in order to justify their christening campaigns.

    • @matt.willoughby
      @matt.willoughby Год назад +3

      @@meadish You're right of course, it's impossible to have an objective view of the past, but that's just history. There are mountains of evidence of ritual sacrifice. How often and under what circumstances they took place is unknown but both ritual animal and human ritual slaughter is well attested

    • @AngelosGT
      @AngelosGT Год назад +5

      Everyone's ancestors were pagans, regardless of where you are from.

    • @cecileroy557
      @cecileroy557 Год назад +1

      @@meadish Thanks - that makes total sense.

  • @tompabay8721
    @tompabay8721 Год назад +1

    ❤️👍👍👍

  • @neko3darcherychannel125
    @neko3darcherychannel125 Год назад +3

    Rus means paddle. I hope I helped ;)

  • @tortveter3385
    @tortveter3385 4 месяца назад +1

    The kings of the viking age Sweden or Svearige, when going Viking, they could by law require rowers for the ships along the coast. This law was named"roslagen", directly translated the law of rowers. From this the slavs derived "ros" or "rus" and then Russia as the Swedes started dominating the land. Tor.

  • @DougShoeBushcraft
    @DougShoeBushcraft Год назад

    great grampa!

  • @lordmorgan2365
    @lordmorgan2365 3 месяца назад

    Nice, conclusive proof documentation, this world, and no other is of Midgards Legacy, not Heavens, ( Archons - Tares).

  • @g.dalfleblanc63
    @g.dalfleblanc63 9 месяцев назад +3

    7 months ago left a comment here about my Varangian DNA which was passed to me through one of my mother's X chromosomes. Recently by chance I left a comment on a video on the 2nd Mongolian invasion of Hungary as I had been matched with members of the Arpad dynasty in particular Andrew II with the longest uninterrupted chain being 15 cM long. The next video that played was this (by the same channel), and I saw my first comment lol. Anyway I found out elsewhere Andrew II's mother was Agnes-Anna de Châtillon, and she was Byzantine (of Antioch).
    I wonder where my strong Varangian DNA comes from, lol.

  • @babyyoda0U812
    @babyyoda0U812 2 года назад +7

    Not the same without you narrating...thumbs up though of course

    • @RealCrusadesHistory
      @RealCrusadesHistory  2 года назад +2

      You don't like the pro narrator?

    • @babyyoda0U812
      @babyyoda0U812 2 года назад +3

      @@RealCrusadesHistory no he's not as captivating as you...sorry just got used to you and the powerful guitar rifts !!!

    • @ihaka439
      @ihaka439 2 года назад +4

      The pro doesn't have the crusader spirit he's merely a mercenary he will flee in the heat of battle

    • @sergioleone3583
      @sergioleone3583 2 года назад +1

      @@babyyoda0U812 I agree with you, and love ihaka Hearty's comment here!

  • @tylerchapman9234
    @tylerchapman9234 2 месяца назад

    Olga was made the patron saint of Kiev

  • @wrecktitudemedia6514
    @wrecktitudemedia6514 2 года назад +7

    I love you Queen Olga!

  • @Natyadasi
    @Natyadasi 8 месяцев назад +7

    I think the Rus were not 100% scandinavian, but already mixed with slavic and finnish tribes one or two generations before when they were invited to rule Kiev

  • @julioheath4213
    @julioheath4213 Год назад +11

    the kievan russ was founded for oleg of novgorod ¬¬

    • @KrokoDildos
      @KrokoDildos Год назад +4

      According to the legend. In which dozens of inconsistencies. Prophetic Oleg is as legendary as Ragnar Lodbrok.

    • @julioheath4213
      @julioheath4213 Год назад +2

      @@KrokoDildosthere is evidence that he attacked constantinople that I don't think is a legend

    • @KrokoDildos
      @KrokoDildos Год назад

      @@julioheath4213 There is no mention of this in Byzantium. For that, about Askold, whom he killed, they wrote about a campaign against Byzantium.

  • @petripaavonpoika3767
    @petripaavonpoika3767 Месяц назад +1

    Ro (Swedish) = to row a boat
    Roslagen = peninsula east of Svealand, called "rowing strike"
    Ruotsi (Finnish) = land of the Rus, land of the men who row boats
    Rus = rowing men

  • @momsfordemocracy
    @momsfordemocracy Год назад +7

    I must say that Vikings were the true ride or die homies. Lol. These guys were crazy.

  • @SonofDiablo97
    @SonofDiablo97 Год назад +4

    Slavic, Finnic and Baltic tribes mix with the Swede Vikings or Varangians and the Kievan Rus' rulers we're of Swede and Slavic ancestry and possibly Finnic too and then Byzantine Greek throw in the mix

    • @Silver_Prussian
      @Silver_Prussian Год назад

      Uhh no the it was just slavs the inly mixing was between the ruling class aka scandinavian and slavic, the people who lived in the kievan rus werent just slavs however they didnt mix they remained separate people to this day, why do think the baltics are still separate nations

    • @rayzas4885
      @rayzas4885 10 месяцев назад +1

      No the slavic tribes absorbed all of the other tribes in the eastern slavic countries

  • @dannythomson5239
    @dannythomson5239 2 года назад +12

    the name "Rus" stems from the red or ginger hair.

    • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
      @jesusislukeskywalker4294 2 года назад +1

      yep. the "leader" nutcase conspiracy weirdos are fixated with it.

    • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
      @jesusislukeskywalker4294 2 года назад +3

      ginger chan Genghis Khan same thing.

    • @andoapata2216
      @andoapata2216 2 года назад +4

      Or skin, nordic peoples tend to get quite red under the sun ;)

    • @dannythomson5239
      @dannythomson5239 2 года назад +4

      @@andoapata2216 good thinking my friend.
      i can confirm we go very red lol
      in my 50yrs i have never had a sun tan.

    • @appleratpipe
      @appleratpipe 2 года назад

      @@andoapata2216 keep it up cringe apologist

  • @thepokemontrainer6094
    @thepokemontrainer6094 2 года назад +47

    I believe that Ukrainian and Russia are amazing countries, I avoid all the brutality and cruelty that is happening right now. I love to look at their amazing history and their pop culture that is just as awesome as Chinese pop culture and Japanese pop culture.

    • @jacquesstrapp3219
      @jacquesstrapp3219 Год назад +25

      The "brutality" you are avoiding will determine the future of the country. It is history in the making and should not be ignored.

    • @matt.willoughby
      @matt.willoughby Год назад

      Russia is attacking their neighbour as we read this, they are killing ordinary Ukrainians in their homes. You cannot and should not ignore this fact.

    • @E.C.2
      @E.C.2 Год назад

      Russia presently is vehemently anti-Catholic with crushing poverty and appealing abortion rate.

    • @TB-bb6kb
      @TB-bb6kb Год назад

      Yeah that is a culture of bloody murderers Russia and Ukraine two sons
      of the same mother During second war they had kill over 7million people
      in most brutal inhuman way Barbaric breed

    • @inthedeadhours
      @inthedeadhours Год назад +2

      @@jacquesstrapp3219 they're probably like 12. look at their sn. let em be innocent a while longer

  • @jimovergaard1254
    @jimovergaard1254 Год назад +9

    Swedish and Fins are Jutes, Angles are Anglos and Norweigans as well. Sweds went east, Danes/Norwegians went down to the locations of even Mesopotamia. Saxons are Norse and are Germanic all have the same beliefs with some differences (Odinism and Wodenism). All Norse traded around all Eurasia and north Africa and the dates are found from Mammoth Tusks. Look at ancient Farthic and then look at other languages. The Germanic stretched from outside the Franks to the slavic regions.

    • @MrMackievelli
      @MrMackievelli Год назад +1

      Jutes are Danes, like the Geats. Swedes were Goths, Goets and Rus, Fins I can't remember.

    • @user-xp5to1gz1o
      @user-xp5to1gz1o Год назад +3

      Что за ахинея. )))

    • @alexsokolovsky1873
      @alexsokolovsky1873 Год назад +2

      I believe angels are not even Scandinavian, they were a German tribe.

    • @MrMackievelli
      @MrMackievelli Год назад +1

      @@alexsokolovsky1873 Scandinavians are mostly Germanic. The ugric and finnic people are the non-Germanic groups in Scandinavia.

    • @alexsokolovsky1873
      @alexsokolovsky1873 Год назад

      @@MrMackievelli Scandinavians belong to North German branch of Germanic peoples. Jutes are one of the tribes that eventually became Danish. While Angeles were from a west Germanic peoples. (like their more famous nabours the Saxons)

  • @g.dalfleblanc63
    @g.dalfleblanc63 Год назад +12

    I never expected to have a very strong DNA input from the Varangians, I expected Danish as this is what the tests of other members of my family have taken. They go back about 20% Danish Viking, while I got 30% Varangian. I did inherit a different X chromosome though, while my brothers and sisters got the other one from our mother.

    • @Durzo1259
      @Durzo1259 Год назад +2

      I've seen a few YT channels where people ordered ancestry tests from 5 or 6 different genetic ancestry companies, all giving them different results, only staying in the general European ballpark.

    • @g.dalfleblanc63
      @g.dalfleblanc63 Год назад +1

      @@Durzo1259 People need to take specific tests. I match 493 Varangian Vikings who were buried in Kyiv and Byzantium (modern day Istanbul).
      Or match their Y DNA to specific individuals.
      My closest with a genetic distance of 1 are:
      Pasgen ap Urien, King of Gwyr.
      William Ker (one of William Wallace's closest friends.)
      Sir John ap Thomas (Herbert's of Coldbrook)

    • @_.Musashi._
      @_.Musashi._ Год назад

      @@g.dalfleblanc63 what kind of test you make

    • @valdimarerlendsson6910
      @valdimarerlendsson6910 Год назад +2

      Bruh its around thousand years ago millions of people are related to these vikings

    • @g.dalfleblanc63
      @g.dalfleblanc63 Год назад

      @@valdimarerlendsson6910 Yes millions do have them as ancestors, but how much of their DNA do those people have? I beat 93% of everyone tested in a database of 12 million. Stop being a jealous imbecile, tell me something cool about yourself.

  • @Marbo12f
    @Marbo12f 2 года назад +9

    This is the first video amongst a dozen to note that a bunch of people inviting viking raiders to rule over them sounds a little sus. Maybe be a little history being written by the victors there.

    • @b.r.holmes6365
      @b.r.holmes6365 2 года назад

      Vikings never took slaves. They just rescued women and gold from villages which experienced spontaneously combustion

    • @mattweir9674
      @mattweir9674 2 года назад +2

      Nah, my Norse ancestors just built different 😏💪

    • @ThatShitGood
      @ThatShitGood Год назад +1

      Nordic people are built to rule 🗿

    • @sebe2255
      @sebe2255 Год назад +2

      @@mattweir9674 Tbf the people that left to rule somewhere are more likely to be the ancestors of the people in that somewhere else

  • @ryder_thompson
    @ryder_thompson 4 месяца назад +1

    come on the Vikings didn’t found Ukraine nor Russia… how possibly could they. Maybe it’s time for the Slavs to invite Norsemen again to rule upon them , cause certainly they are still not capable of doing that…

  • @Texasmade74
    @Texasmade74 2 года назад +36

    Fun fact Rurik,Oleg,Igor of Kiev, and Sviatoslav 1 were all staunch pagans that never converted so don't twist history. Also the Scandinavians were definitely not illiterate they had the runic scripts which are absolutely a writing system

    • @RealCrusadesHistory
      @RealCrusadesHistory  2 года назад +18

      I never said they converted.

    • @nightrunner3701
      @nightrunner3701 2 года назад

      Proud of your child sacrifice hereitage?

    • @Texasmade74
      @Texasmade74 2 года назад +3

      @@RealCrusadesHistory I never said you did

    • @ChristianMChristian
      @ChristianMChristian 2 года назад +6

      Fun fact: the Cyrillic alphabet still used today (please correct me if I’m wrong) was instituted by Saint Cyril, who converted all the Rus only a century after the events of the video. Also, where does the (fake) conversion of the Khazars fit into this narrative?

    • @Texasmade74
      @Texasmade74 2 года назад +1

      @@ChristianMChristian Vladimir 1 was the one who ordered the Rus to convert he was the son of Sviatoslav 1

  • @leonardok9699
    @leonardok9699 Месяц назад

    Whats the song name at 5:00???!

  • @KremCosmiC
    @KremCosmiC Месяц назад

    Founded by Scandinavian vikings.

  • @SebastianGonzalez-bt1wg
    @SebastianGonzalez-bt1wg 10 месяцев назад +2

    The russ are indoeuropean they are huns scythians diferent names same people . The slavs are not danish

    • @PUARockstar
      @PUARockstar 8 месяцев назад

      Rus with a single s

    • @marijanstankovic8036
      @marijanstankovic8036 2 месяца назад

      Slavs are not Huns. Hungarians are descendants of Huns.

  • @gevarogevaro8845
    @gevarogevaro8845 23 дня назад +2

    Writing "Kiev.." is not the correct translation into English...
    The correct translation is "Kyiv.."

  • @Puchiaca69
    @Puchiaca69 4 месяца назад

    Vikings they have no money

  • @igorkushyna3086
    @igorkushyna3086 Год назад +5

    Glory to Kievan Rus'⚔⚔

    • @user-zw8ld8nt5f
      @user-zw8ld8nt5f 6 месяцев назад +2

      Kievan Rus never existed. What is called «Kievan Rus» is a time period of Russia, actually. How much can you explain? Therefore, who do you wish victory to? 😃It's funny.

    • @TheOlgaSasha
      @TheOlgaSasha 2 месяца назад

      ​@@user-zw8ld8nt5fRUS existed much more earlier than ruzzia appeared. Kiev is 1500 y.o. Moscow is only 850 y.o. Kiev, Chernigov, Pereyaslav, Galich etc. were most ancient cities of RUS and those cities are still in modern Ukraine

    • @user-zw8ld8nt5f
      @user-zw8ld8nt5f 2 месяца назад

      @@TheOlgaSasha Во-первых, не факт, что Киеву 1500 лет. Во-вторых, даже если бы и так, что с того? К тому же, а где в вашем списке Новгород, Смоленск, Ростов, Суздаль? Или это не города древней Руси, а? В чём, собственно, суть ваших претензий не улавливаю.

    • @marijanstankovic8036
      @marijanstankovic8036 2 месяца назад +1

      @@TheOlgaSasha Novgorod and Stara Ladoga are older that Kiev. All of them were part of same country, Rus or Russia. Word "Ukraine" came much later. Ukraine was never a country until 1992. Russia, Ukraine and Belarus will be one country again.

  • @hakanliljeberg790
    @hakanliljeberg790 3 месяца назад +1

    Sweden had a great influence on Russia about 1000-1200 years ago. It was common that in the elite of Kyiv-Rus or Novgorod -Rus that they had one, two or more swedish ancestors/relatives. As late as 14th c icelandic scribes called Rus area for "The great/big Sweden". Common cultural features still exists. F.ex. in eastern Sweden when older people see a black cat they still spit three times over left shoulder to stop misfortunes to happen, exactly what they do in Russia...Other similarites is a sacrifice to Tomte/Nisse or farmspirit, in Russia it´s called Domevoi. Both people used to put steel in cradle or threshold to stop Trolls or Lezji(treepeople) to steal the children...

    • @Capcarap333
      @Capcarap333 2 месяца назад

      Russia didn’t exist thousands years, Name Russia came to existence in 1721. This story is based on legends not historical facts. Too bad is spreading myths.

    • @user-zw8ld8nt5f
      @user-zw8ld8nt5f 2 месяца назад +2

      @@Capcarap333 Вот вы эти самые мифы как раз и распространяете. А России тысяча лет. Факт.

    • @Capcarap333
      @Capcarap333 2 месяца назад

      Kyiv Ruś has nothing to do with Muscovia, Novgorod that’s a legend, archeological findings place origins of Novgorod after Kyiv glorious times. Ruś is not todays Russia, Peter 1 only in 18 century adopted fraudulently Greek name Rossia for Moscovia. Ruś it is nowadays Ukraine.

    • @user-zw8ld8nt5f
      @user-zw8ld8nt5f 2 месяца назад

      @@Capcarap333 Хватит врать уже. У вас ни слова правды нет. Всё это разбивается просто.

    • @Capcarap333
      @Capcarap333 2 месяца назад

      @@user-zw8ld8nt5f правда колёт очи

  • @ssmatthews6798
    @ssmatthews6798 Год назад +22

    Basically the vikings have claim on Russia and Ukraine. Lets go claim that land in the best Putin "spirit".

    • @lostplanet1931
      @lostplanet1931 Год назад +28

      So sweden belong to russia too?

    • @NUMMEHARBEN
      @NUMMEHARBEN Год назад +16

      @@lostplanet1931 No, the opposite!

    • @Hello-xh3rx
      @Hello-xh3rx Год назад +7

      As a Russian lets go, it will be an interesting fight

    • @sebe2255
      @sebe2255 Год назад +4

      @@NUMMEHARBEN You could make the case either way. Just say that the Ruriks were actually also the true rulers of Sweden

    • @rayzas4885
      @rayzas4885 10 месяцев назад +2

      You mean the vikings that were absorbed by the Russian population?

  • @jantegner36
    @jantegner36 Год назад +27

    The word "rus" comes from the swedish word "rorsman" (the man who steers the ship). It was interpreteded as "rus-man", which is why the swedish viking became known as the "rus". The area in eastern Sweden where most vikings came from (as the arrows in the movie show) is known as Roslagen still today.
    So Rus-sians are just swedes wannabees... 😂

    • @Kuriver
      @Kuriver Год назад +13

      In fact, Sweden is still called "Ruotsi" in Finnish and "Roots" in Estonian, as Roslagen would have been the closest part of Sweden with most contact to the Finns, there are millenia long contacts between these areas. Funnily enough, the modern name for Russia in Finnish in "Venäjä" which comes from the Venedi, a west slavic tribe on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea ("ryssä" is a derogatory term). Maybe this gives a hint from where (and when) the slavic people came to Russia. During the time of the Rus, northern Russia was pretty much Finnic speaking but the influence of Christianity (old Church slavic) caused these people to change their language during the next centuries. The problem with history often is that modern concepts and borders of nations are projected to the past.

    • @_A.d.G_
      @_A.d.G_ Год назад +2

      Yes, Peter the Great really wanted to be Swed.

    • @JesusChristISTHEONETRUEGOD
      @JesusChristISTHEONETRUEGOD Год назад +9

      Rus is from Rurik which is who the people were named after.

    • @1N73RC3P7OR
      @1N73RC3P7OR Год назад +2

      Wasn't Sweden a wanna-be empire that got absolutely wrecked by the Russians?

    • @user-mh6pz8rq9d
      @user-mh6pz8rq9d Год назад +2

      Interesring! Never heard of that. In school we were taught that Rus was simply a name of Rurik's tribe

  • @jondoealoe
    @jondoealoe 4 месяца назад

    Ra, Re, Ri, Ro, and Ru are root words for REd in RA, HeRA, HoRI, ROse, JeRUsalem, HoRUs, RUssian, and over half of the languages on earth.
    The RU in Russ means Red.

    • @marijanstankovic8036
      @marijanstankovic8036 2 месяца назад

      No, in most Slavic languages "Rus" means Blonde. Check in Google Translate.

  • @abrandon123z
    @abrandon123z 8 месяцев назад

    So from what im understanding people from russia and Ukraine are descendents from Sweden

    • @user-nj1ev1pm3q
      @user-nj1ev1pm3q 7 месяцев назад +2

      Only Russians are descendants of Swedes, Ukrainians are descendants of Poles.

    • @TheOlgaSasha
      @TheOlgaSasha 2 месяца назад +3

      ​@@user-nj1ev1pm3qUkrainians are not descendants of Poles. It is nonesense. Modern so-called "russians" are in fact a mix of moscowians, novgorodians and 30 other not Slavic (Turkic, Ugro-Finnic etc) peoples which were officially called "Russia" only in times of Peter I in 18th century. Kiev was and remains "the mother of Rus' cities" (as it was always called in chronicles)

    • @marijanstankovic8036
      @marijanstankovic8036 2 месяца назад

      @@TheOlgaSasha Rus is Russia. So called "Ukrainians" are mixture of Russians, and minorities in today Ukraine (Hungarians, Poles, Bulgarians, etc...). There was never a "Ukraine" country until 1991.

  • @sparrowsbewertungen6930
    @sparrowsbewertungen6930 3 месяца назад +7

    Ukraine? Has nothing to do with a nationality btw

    • @triggerboy85v59
      @triggerboy85v59 Месяц назад +1

      That’s right

    • @withoutwords8136
      @withoutwords8136 Месяц назад

      tribes who formed Ukraine

    • @sparrowsbewertungen6930
      @sparrowsbewertungen6930 Месяц назад +3

      @@withoutwords8136 slavic Tribes calling themselves "Rus"

    • @withoutwords8136
      @withoutwords8136 Месяц назад

      @@sparrowsbewertungen6930 not all of them, did it only those who lived near Chernihov, Pereyaslav and Kiev

    • @sparrowsbewertungen6930
      @sparrowsbewertungen6930 Месяц назад +2

      @@withoutwords8136 well noone called himself Ukrainian
      Those territories in ukraine that were not rus ... were mongol parts , later retaken lol

  • @rursus8354
    @rursus8354 Год назад +1

    Being a Swede I always thought that these forefathers are despicable and disgusting, but this presentation also makes them ludicrously despicable and disgusting. I thank you for that. I have some fantasy authoring in my mind.

    • @paronzoda
      @paronzoda Год назад

      Swe Power

    • @zteaxon7787
      @zteaxon7787 Год назад +1

      It is not vikings that enslaved the slavic peoples. The slavic peoples ARE vikings.
      J3ws enslaved the slavs and traded them. This account is a fiction to scapegoat vikings for the crimes of Jewry. The viking population of Ukraine was enslaved by J3wish slavers operating from their Byzantine Judeo-christian empire.

    • @paronzoda
      @paronzoda Год назад

      You are despicable and disgusting

    • @akrobatish
      @akrobatish Год назад +5

      are you ok?

    • @raphaelostrowski6336
      @raphaelostrowski6336 10 месяцев назад +4

      You sound soft

  • @penkola
    @penkola Год назад +2

    All Vikings were blond and people started calling them RUS, because on Bulgarian rus means blond.

    • @shar3066
      @shar3066 Год назад +4

      Not true. Even in my family some have brown eyes, dark skin and it's just a myth all are blond.

    • @user-cg2tw8pw7j
      @user-cg2tw8pw7j Год назад +6

      ​@@shar3066 You have Roman blood, brother, and that's weird

    • @RytheCodplayer
      @RytheCodplayer 8 месяцев назад

      ⁠@@user-cg2tw8pw7jThere are plenty of first hand accounts of red and brown haired Vikings.

    • @rayzas4885
      @rayzas4885 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@user-cg2tw8pw7j Roman blood is far more glorious than viking blood

    • @alovekok9044
      @alovekok9044 4 месяца назад

      ​@@rayzas4885
      What's wrong with viking blood?

  • @Bolghar_wolf
    @Bolghar_wolf 2 года назад +8

    Rurik (Lachyn) is from the Bulgar Dulo clan, descendant of Kubrat and Attila. He was never a viking. It's all written in Djagfar Tarihi.
    Modern Ukraine is on the territory of Old Great Bulgaria (Urus Bulgar) , which in the 7th century divided into Khazaria, Avaria, Danube Bulgaria and Black Bulgaria (with Kyiv capital). In the 9th century after a Civil War Black Bulgaria (Kara Bulgar) divided into Volga Bulgaria (Ak Bulgar) and Kyiv Rus (Urus).

    • @Bolghar_wolf
      @Bolghar_wolf 2 года назад +2

      @Jotaro97 My brother in Christ, literally all evidence points to it. VIkings never used the trident tamga. The trident (Baltavar) was the arms of Dulo clan and a symbol of Bulgar statehood. Also as I said above, it's all written in Djagfar Tarihi, the lineage of Rurik, Attila etc. Half of these chronicles were destroyed by NKVD but we are lucky that the other half was saved and was kept in the so called Tatar SSR.

    • @ionelflorea2116
      @ionelflorea2116 2 года назад +15

      @@Bolghar_wolf Rurik literarly comes from the Swedish Norse name Hrodrick, as does Olga come from Helga

    • @Bolghar_wolf
      @Bolghar_wolf 2 года назад +1

      @@ionelflorea2116 Helga/Olga name is Uldjai. Everything is written in Djagfar Tarihi, check it man

    • @Bolghar_wolf
      @Bolghar_wolf Год назад +1

      @Jotaro97 there is big reasons and everyone who has actually read it knows it

    • @DimitarFCBM
      @DimitarFCBM Год назад

      Djagfar Tarihi is one of the most unreliable historical sources in history

  • @par-eriklof7723
    @par-eriklof7723 2 года назад +18

    🇸🇪💙💛🇺🇦

    • @NUMMEHARBEN
      @NUMMEHARBEN Год назад +10

      This can be the reason why we got the same colours in the flags.

    • @hejsapo1572
      @hejsapo1572 7 месяцев назад +2

      Haha tyst 🇸🇪💕🇷🇺

  • @user-wh2mt1mh7t
    @user-wh2mt1mh7t 2 месяца назад +1

    Русь в повести временньІх лет бьІла извесна еще до Рюрика, -В год 6360 (852), индикта 15, когда начал царствовать Михаил, стала прозываться Русская земля. Узнали мы об этом потому, что при этом царе приходила Русь на Царьград,
    И вся ета история о том што рюрик принес название "Русь" придумали только из одного неправильно переведенного слова "пояши" в летописи)))

    • @user-zw8ld8nt5f
      @user-zw8ld8nt5f Месяц назад

      Скажу в двух словах. Во-первых, не была Русь, как государство, до прихода варягов. Во-вторых, а что слово *«пояши»* должно по-вашему означать, как «правильно» оно должно переводиться?

    • @user-wh2mt1mh7t
      @user-wh2mt1mh7t Месяц назад

      @@user-zw8ld8nt5f Во всех остальньІх случаях слово пояши переведено как приняли, -приняли по себе всю русь также как напимер приняли правление в руси в своих наделах сьІньІ ВолодьІмьІра Мономаха а младшенькому-уродцу у которого маменька половчанка отпрввили куда подальше с глаз долой в леса залешанские.

    • @user-wh2mt1mh7t
      @user-wh2mt1mh7t Месяц назад

      @@user-zw8ld8nt5f ВьІ плохо знаете истрию Руси, на византию походами ходили а государственности небьІло))) гардарика -страна городов (змиевьІе вальІ протяженностю 2000км) существовали но государства небьІло.
      А как вьІ обясните што например о всех достоверно извесньІх описаниях Киевских князьях линии рюрика о них описания как о русинах а не как о вьІходцах из скандинавов.

    • @user-wh2mt1mh7t
      @user-wh2mt1mh7t Месяц назад

      А "пояши" во всех других случаях переведено как приняли , -приняли по себе всю русь также например как приняли всю русь дети ВолодЬІмьІра мономаха.

    • @user-wh2mt1mh7t
      @user-wh2mt1mh7t Месяц назад

      ​​@@user-zw8ld8nt5f А тут еще например Кирило тот што Кирило и Мефодий когда прибьІл в Корсунь то тогда он видел евангелие написаньІе на "роський мови" и общался с роським монахом, предствляешь себе такое, руси с ваших слов нет а письменность и книги есть)))

  • @grahammcfelin340
    @grahammcfelin340 Месяц назад

    The the Russ are Russians were encouraged to build their first city and capital here. The regions around Kyiv is the original homeland of the Russ or rus tribes ,Russians existed here from prehistoric time over 20,000 years .

  • @IvanaKupala
    @IvanaKupala 9 месяцев назад +5

    Kyivan Rus