SC - Re: Pennsic Water

[Ian Gourdon]

- --- "ana l. valdes" <agora at algonet.se> wrote:

> PS: don´t forget a big part of the Vikings were
> tradepeople, with high
> developed commercial relationships with Byzantium
> and Russia. Historical
> sources says the cities of Moskva and Kiev were
> founded by the Vikings,
> in their way to Byzantium. They had a lot of spices
> and vegetables they
> got from Byzantium. Many graves discovered in Sweden
> are witness of it.
> Byzantium coins were well spread in Sweden and
> Danmark. I dont know if
> it was the case of Norway and Iceland.
> 
No, not really.  The Swedish vikings (The Rus) went
east into central Europe and Russia to Byzantium,
where they comprised the Verangian Guard. The Norse
vikings went west to England, Iceland, Greenland and
North America, with a stop-over in Normandy.  The
Danish vikings raided Germany and the Baltic
coastline, Norway and England.

Huette
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