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

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 21:23:31 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

<snippo -- topic is Russian origins>

Scandanavian Vikings penetrated far into what is now Russia, sailing
up rivers, and protaging between them. They even got down to the
Black Sea, and Constantinople, as attested by multiple runic
graffiti in the Hagia Sophia.

The Varangian Guard was mostly Scandinavian.

IIRC, there were also trade connections. Imagine a trade route from
Sweden to Constantinople through Russia (or just West of Russia) with
outposts, immigrants, settlers ...

There was a movie about this that I saw when I was young, but I don't
recall the name offhand.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"