Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:46:38 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, Paul S Person wrote:
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:35:28 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2025, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

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Actually Russia should be part of the Ukrainian State if you
go back far enough in History. But the Ukrainian nation sparked Russia.
Kiev should be the capital. Most of Russian history started with Kiev.

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This is incorrect. Ukraine and Russia should be part of the Swedish
kingdom!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik
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According to the chronicle, Rurik was one of the Rus', a Varangian tribe.
Most historians believe that the Rus' were of Scandinavian origin,[13]
more specifically from what is currently coastal eastern Sweden around the
eighth century.[14] According to the prevalent theory, the name Rus' is
derived from an Old Norse term for "the men who row", from an older name
for the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen.[15][16]

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While I was waiting for my Russian Basic class to begin, I did some
reading. I found out a lot about Siberian folk religions but I also
found the Scandanavian connection; indeed, IIRC, what I read suggested
that a fair number of common Russian names for people are derived from
Scandanavia. Among other things.

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This is very interesting. Do you have any links or more information? In
terms of siberian folk religions, I have a theory that the religions and
customs of the early vikings at some point crossed with the siberian folk
religions. This is not proven, but I would not be surprised if there's
been some influence back and forth between the two.

The Siberians concerned were mostly a lot further to the East. But
anything is possible.

This gives the impressiion that the Great Russians are Swedes, and the
Little Russans (Belarus) [1] are the real Russians.

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I will call them white russians until they are a democracy and they have
renamed what ever sweden is called in their language to "sverige". Then we
can talk. As long as Lukashenko is there, I will not comply.

And yet it appears that Lukashenko is opposed to Belarus becoming part
of Russia. And Bing shows the Russian for "Sweden" transcribed as
"shvetsiya" (and in Belarusian). Which I suggest is as close to
"sverige" as you are likely to get.

The Russian for "german", OTOH, is "nemetsky". When I took Russian
Basic, we were told this meant ("dumb" -- not as in "stupid", but as
in "mute") because German was the first non-Slavic language they
encountered. If you were thinking their term for "Sweden" was
insulting, you may have been thinking of their term for "german".

Another theory is that they are, in fact, Finns.

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Finns? Very interesting. How did you get that connection? I thought the
finns and the hungarians, and to a certain extent, the estonians where off
by themselves in a corner doing their thing.

More specifically, a Finnish tribe. But clearly, if they were, they
changed their language to something slavic. And this was only a
theory, possibly long discredited.

[1] Also known as "White Russians" -- but not in the political sense,
that is, not as contrasted with the "Red Russians" in the post-WWI
Civil War.
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