Subj : Re: Cognitive bias exposed
To : Bj�rn Felten
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Wed Aug 17 2022 10:31 am
BF> The Swedish Vikings were busy setting up trade routes to Miklag�rd
BF> (today Istanbul). On it's way they set up trade stations, the most
BF> important was a small village called Kiev. Those Vikings came mostly from
BF> Roslagen outside of today's Stockholm, so they were called Ros, later
BF> Rus. A thousand years later the kins of those Rus that stayed behind had
BF> grown and created what today is called Russia.
History can be an interesting thing.
So actually these were Vikings that invaded Ukraine?
What I've known already for a long time is that the viking image pressed on us via Hollywood (OK, Dan, have a go) is slightly wrong, to use an understatement.
