Subj : Cognitive bias exposed
To : Ward Dossche
From : Bj�rn Felten
Date : Tue Aug 16 2022 08:09 pm
WD> We don't exactly know what the Vikings did overhere ... their DNA may be
WD> everywhere ...
True. What we know however is, that those Vikings you think of did *not* come from Sweden, they came from Denmark and Norway. Yes, I know, those countries didn't yet exist as such, but I think you get what I mean.
The Swedish Vikings were busy setting up trade routes to Miklag�rd (today Istanbul). On it's way they set up trade stations, the most important was a small village called Kiev. Those Vikings came mostly from Roslagen outside of today's Stockholm, so they were called Ros, later Rus. A thousand years later the kins of those Rus that stayed behind had grown and created what today is called Russia.
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