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In July, Ukraine demanded Russia return its combat dolphins, trained to detect underwater mines. They were being held near Sevastopol, watched by Russian guards. Novelist Ned Beauman imagines what might have happened. Illustration. Steve Caplin for the Guardian. Ned Beauman ... Imagine the smell ... They may deign to prance for their trainers, but they’re not Russian or Ukranian, or Varangian for that matter, or Gothic or Hunnic or Scythic ... ....
The Guardian 2014-12-26Both are one in the same - Totalitarianism ... ... Varange, of course, refers to the Varangians, that far-roving band of Norse heroes led by Rurik who, upon invitation from the Slavs, came to civilize Russia in the 9th Century, built the Russian Imperial State and formed the gifted and handsome Russian aristocracy until they were butchered by the Bolsheviks -- along with some 20 million other Christians and Moslems -- in that bloody terror....
The People's Voice 2014-11-18RUSSIAN warships are in northern Australian waters in an unprecedented show of strength to accompany Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the G20 in Brisbane this weekend ... The ships are in the Coral Sea, south of Bougainville off Australia’s east coast ... A guided missile Cruiser, Varyag, named after the country’s Viking ancestors, the Varangian people, is leading the contingent south in international waters ... ....
The Australian 2014-11-12(Source. Ukrrichflot PJSC). Dnipropetrovsk River Port Celebrates 215th Anniversary! ... The history of port development is certainly closely connected with the development of Dnipropetrovsk city (named Ekaterinoslav up to 1926) located at the Dnipro river stretch being in key position of the ancient "Trade route from the Varangians to Greeks" in the times of Kievan Rus ... I ... It is a unique advantage for our country ... tons per year ... 05.05.14....
noodls 2014-07-25(Source. Ku-ring-gai Council). Devotees of medieval jousting and battle re-enactments will flock to St Ives Showground in September ... Jousters wear full body armour that faithfully recreates the battledress worn by medieval knights ... Led by the New Varangian Guard and many other high-quality dark ages reenactment groups, the Vikings and Rus' will battle for supremacy in armed combat ... ends ... 9424 0982. distributed by ... (noodl. 24107093) ....
noodls 2014-07-23When Sigurd returned home, many of the Northmen remained behind and entered the Emperor’s bodyguard” — the Varangian Guard, of which more anon ... Varangian is a word said by some to be derived from Old Norse and in various forms means to have faith or confidence in, or to enter into fellowship with, a foreigner — but could both Varangian and foreigner, I wonder, come from the same Latin source?....
London Evening Standard 2014-05-24Later still, when living for a decade in Grahame’s house and feeling slightly haunted (I wish I lived there still), I realised that in a second discursive chapter, ‘Wayfarers All’, he had, with the wise old Sea Rat, the mariner rat who hailed from Constantinople, introduced the Norwegian warriors who, in 988 AD, had formed the Varangian Guard, thenceforth for centuries the personal bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperors....
London Evening Standard 2013-12-06Mystery Tales of the Khazars. Historical fiction. If you write serialized stories, you can turn them into a novel for a niche audience ... Princess Serakh’s Tale. Queen of the Steppes and the Caucasus. Kiev. The Year 865 of the Common Era. Dear Diary. This is Raziet of Alania who is now called Serakh of Khazaria. ... That means settling ... Fortunate for them, they positioned themselves number one across the Varangian trade route to Constantinople ... ....
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Canberra Times 2013-09-15This weekend Vikings invaded Freemont, Michigan as the The Mitterlanders re-created a Viking Merchant Town from along the Varangian Trade Route that ran from Sweden to Russia, and then on to Constantinople a millennium ago. There were booths selling scents for the ladies and lads, clothes, jewelry, and other plunder from the past and present ... ....
The Examiner 2013-08-25Two blond warriors in green tunics draw their swords and rush into a village hut. They drag out a man and slice his throat. Villagers run out and broadswords clang in the twilight ... The attackers scatter among the trees ... There the emperor kept a squad of Norse warriors, his elite Varangian Guard, and in his mighty cathedral – now the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul – where you can still see Viking runes scratched in the ancient stones ... ....
The Independent 2013-07-06J. Wisniewski May 21, 2013. Check out our new companion site. http.//knowledgenuts.com ... Thankfully, history’s done all the hard work already ... 10 Xenophon ... 8 The Varangian Guard. 911–1400s ... To its own detriment, Hollywood has thus far ignored the action movie gold mine that is the Varangian Guard’s history. If pressed to choose just one story of a Varangian Guardsman, the life of Harald Hardrada would be a good place to start ... b ... b ... ....
ListVerse 2013-05-21Sci-fi story "Befriending Aliens" by Norma Druid tells of when alien races collide in the universe. Nashville, Tenn ... This once uninhabited planet has recently been home to an experimental gathering of humans and their alien neighbors, the Varangians ... What went wrong? ... Druid does this by fully illustrating the two alien races of the book—the Varangians and Felidae, to show that they are as developed as their human counterparts ... By ... ISBN ... ....
Yahoo Daily News 2013-02-16The Varangians or Varyags (Old Norse: Væringjar; Swedish: Väringar; Greek: Βάραγγοι, Βαριάγοι, Varangoi, Variagoi; Russian and Ukrainian: Варяги, Varyagi / Varyahy; Belarusian: Варагі, Varahi) was the name given by Greeks and East Slavs to Vikings, who between the 9th and the 11th centuries ruled the medieval state of Rus', and formed the Byzantine Varangian Guard.
According to the 12th century Kievan Primary Chronicle, a group of Varangians known as the Rus' settled in Novgorod in 864, under the leadership of Rurik. Before Rurik, the Rus' might have ruled an earlier hypothetical polity. Rurik's relative Oleg conquered Kiev in 882, and established the state of Kievan Rus', which was later ruled by Ruriks descendants. The name of the Rus' is the origin of the name Russia.
The Varangian Guard (Greek: Τάγμα των Βαράγγων, Tágma tōn Varángōn) was an elite unit of the Byzantine Army in 10th to the 14th centuries, whose members served as personal bodyguards of the Byzantine Emperors.
The guard was first formed under Emperor Basil II in 988, following the Christianization of Kievan Rus' by Vladimir I of Kiev. Vladimir, who had recently usurped power in Kiev with an army of Varangian warriors, sent 6,000 men to Basil as part of a military assistance agreement. Basil's distrust of the native Byzantine guardsmen, whose loyalties often shifted with fatal consequences, as well as the proven loyalty of the Varangians, many of whom served in Byzantium even before, led the Emperor to employ them as his personal guardsmen. Over the years, new recruits from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland kept a predominantly Norse cast to the organization until the late 11th century.
So many Scandinavians left to enlist in the guard that a medieval Swedish law from Västergötland stated that no one could inherit while staying in "Greece"—the then Scandinavian term for the Byzantine Empire. In the eleventh century, there were also two other European courts that recruited Scandinavians:Kievan Rus' c. 980–1060 and London 1018–1066 (the Þingalið).
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