Daily Medieval

To be fair, I have mentioned one  Ostrogoth before: King Theodoric was talked about here and here . The larger culture of the Goths has be...

Statue of Olaf in Trondheim King Olaf Tryggvason is the subject of far more stories than we have facts to support them. (He was implica...

We touched on the Christianization of Kievan Rus when talking about the Varangian Guard . This Christianization did not happen all at onc...

An 11th-century depiction of Varangian Guards. In recent posts on the 4th Crusade and the Siege of Constantinople, I mentioned the Vara...

Kiev is in the news a lot lately, and it makes me think of Anne of Kiev, whose name at birth was Anna Yaroslavna, an 11th century queen of F...