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Showing posts with label Varangian Guard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Varangian Guard. Show all posts
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Spillings Hoard

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And now for the absolute largest Viking hoard of silver treasure ever found (I should add: "so far"). In 1999, a Swedish televisio...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

From Scandinavia to Constantinople

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The Varangian Guard  were personal bodyguards for Byzantine emperors from the 10th to 14th centuries. The guards were primarily hired from N...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The Greece Runestones

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Several of the Norse Runestones are part of a subset called Greece Runestones. These refer to Grikkland (Greece) or Grikkjar (Greeks), an...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Runestones

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When King Harald Bluetooth chose to be baptized in the 960s, he decided to commemorate the radical change he was instigating for the Danes ...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Kyiv

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Kyiv is one of the oldest cities in eastern Europe. Humans lived there since the Stone Age, and from the Iron Age there is evidence of anima...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Olga of Kiev, the Evil Saint

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We touched on the Christianization of Kievan Rus when talking about the Varangian Guard . This Christianization did not happen all at onc...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Vikings in Constantinople

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An 11th-century depiction of Varangian Guards. In recent posts on the 4th Crusade and the Siege of Constantinople, I mentioned the Vara...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

The (Disastrous) 4th Crusade, Part 3

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[see Part 1 here and Part 2 here , and the preface to today's here ] So the Crusade left in spring of 1203 to sail to Constanbti...