Topic
#Rus'
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Peoples & Migrations
Who Were the Varangians? Vikings of the Eastern Rivers, Rus' and Byzantium
Who were the Varangians? Meet the Scandinavian traders, warriors and princes who ran the river roads from the Baltic to Byzantium and Baghdad.
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Sources & Evidence
Ibn Fadlan: The Baghdad Envoy Who Met the Vikings on the Volga
Who was Ibn Fadlan? Follow the Abbasid envoy from Baghdad to the Volga in 921–922 and read what he really wrote about the Rus' and their ship funeral.