• Gork@sopuli.xyz
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    20 days ago

    Sounds like the Swiss Guards of the Vatican with their colorful pants and the halberds.

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    Swedish vikings also established the Rus kingdom, based on trade route “from Varyags to Greeks” by the river Dnipro.

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      Based on Roslagen which is a Swedish area and the name finns use for Sweden, ruotsi.

      Fun theory which is denied by Russia is that the origin of the name Russia. Kiev, kievska-rus was a viking hub at the time and when Russia expanded to cover kiev it was briefly the dev facto capital of Russia due to its size and trade, and so other cities got the suffix rus, such as mockba-rus. Eventually it was called rusland, meaning Swedish land.