Russians know about. It. And moscow is not so old.. For example as archeology discovered.. Varangians from birka appeared near Smolensk as early as790ad
People overlook this fact always, we Russians are SCANDINAVIANS living southeast of our original Homeland. The reason not all Russians look like SCANDINAVIANS is because some are mixed with turkics and some SCANDINAVIANS are mixed with Celts and Mediterraneans (Vikings took other people's women as wifes) But in every way we are still ecandinavian and in our mindset even we are Scandinavian We were the only people to colonize entire Asia, just like our Germanic brothers Brother wars have to stop! Russian and Germanic brothers need to come together and defend our people from the Anglo Saxons and the Arabs and the Chinese!
Finno Ugric DNA is not a thing Haplogroup N is present in both Finnish and Turkic populations Rurik could as easily have been a Turk as a Finn (most likely just a Scandinavian with some saami ancestor) Stop trying to appropriate our history just because you have none, finngol Rurik was Swede
A group of foreigners that speak a foreign language, practice foreign religion, have foreign customs, and that have for years raided and robbed the coasts of Baltic sea populated by slavic and chud tribes are invited to rule by the very people they have robbed and raided for years? Much more likely that Rurik and his retinue were west slavs with familiar customs and who spoke the same language. There is no mention ever of translators of interpreters, meaning Rurik and the slavs that invited them understood each other perfectly well. "What was viking jewelry doing in the hands of Russia's early rulers? 200 years after the end of the viking age?" - the same thing that Rhineland Ulfberht swords were doing in Scandinavia and Volga Bulgaria, same thing that American smartphones are doing in China and Korean cars doing in Canada. By this movie's logic, to paraphrase Michael Zadornov, in a thousand years archaeologists will claim that Russians originated and lived in Africa, because there are Kalashnikov rifles everywhere. The Tale of Past Years (the Primary Chronicle) wasn't written by one monk Nestor, it's a collection of various accounts. In the Chronicle, Rus are clearly stated as being Varangians along with Swedes, Normans, Angles, and a bunch of others. This fact alone excludes the possibility that Rus were Scandinavian possession. The Chronicle mentions that Chud and Slavic tribes sought help because they didn't have order. There is an ongoing discussion about that word, since Hypatian Codex that the Primary Chronicle Includes, has a different word in the same spot: outfit. Not the outfit like a retinue, but an outfit that you wear, or more accurately, a representation. That is, Slavs and Chuds did not call someone to organize them and bring order, but to represent them. Represent before whom, you ask? Khazar khanate, obviously. Kiev at the time was one of the prominent border towns of the rich Khazar khanate, and tribes of what would later become Southern and Eastern Rus all paid tribute to it. Slavs and Chud tribes that called for Rurik to rule them were only the northenmost third of what would later become Kievan Rus. It's important to note that for the entirety of what is considered Medieval period, Rus was entirely unlike the medieval societies of Western Europe. Princes were displaces and re-elected all the time by the majority of veche (a popular congress, similar to Scandinavian Thing). Rurik was called into a similar situation; he was elected more to represent the people and organize military defense and less to rule and organize the people's daily lives.
Your right bro.the rurick family recently took DNA test and it showed they were not swedish but finnish.it was more likely that Finn's from Russia called thier cousin s in Sweden for back up.try telling that to a Swede or a Russian bot of whom have absorbed if not erased Finnish history.
@@thomasfloyd1704 Nope the DNA test included traces from Scandinavia and it was traced to the Swedish population in Finnland because they are closest relatives. Also they found out that other traces in the DNA could be linked to the population north of Stockholm. Which is located in Roslagen were it is said that the Rus vikings came from. The Finno-Swedes in Finnland are called Rutsi and not Routsi like they call the Swedes.
@@thomasfloyd1704 Did I hit a nerv? But the facts are that the DNA was traced to the areas in western middle parts of Finland and eastern parts of Sweden. So yeah you got no idea how DNA tests works.
Russia was grounded by Bulgaria. In the 10th century. The heiress of the Bulgarian Tsar Boris (853-890), Princess Olga (894-960) of Pleskov (Pliska, Bulgaria), established statehood in Kievan Rus and began to spread Christianity, together with the rules for establishing a state administration. Bulgarian monks supplied Christian books to begin the formation of writing culture in the newly formed state. This spread to the north. Vikings came later to Russia to rob. Yes, there were Vikings in Russia. But not to found it. Finding Viking bracelets in Moscow is no proof that the Vikings formed Russia :-) These are fabrications that are rather ridiculous and unprofessional from a historical point of view. I was embarrassed to read some of the naive comments below the video. People need to be more educated and able to think. There were Vikings who later participated in the life of the Russian state, but not as founders, but as groups who settled during the regular raids on these lands. The Russians are the so-called Slavs with a Finno-Tatar gene with Mongolian admixtures and have little in common with the German genetic group. Finally, one clarification: the term "Slavs" is not genetically based, but is a paradigm introduced at the end of the 18th century by a Russian aristocrat from the royal (Тsar) family, with the idea of finding a common feature between Russia and other linguistically similar communities and to unite them around Russia as the most a large country of this language community.
Princess Olga, that you mention, was not daughter of Boris, as you say, she was Daughter of Gostomysl (the first slavic grand Duke of Novgorod). Boris had many daughters but none of them named Olga. 883 Boris resigned to a more peaceful life as a monk until his death and his son Vladimir took over the throne. The rulers of Novgorod before Gostomysl were all Swedish rowing warriors, called Rus in several ancient documents (i.e. The Nestor Chronicles and the Ibn Fadlan). Novgorod had been ruled by the Swedish Rus for on an off for 200 years before Gostomysl took over the power. The Swedish Rus were year 860 even asked to come back and rule over Novgorod to help unite the plentiful smaller tribes in the area. When the job was done, Gostomysl chased out the Swedish varjaeger (Swedish warrior fighting for the Swedish Rus for money) out of the city and he put himself on the throne. Olgas birth name was Helga, indicating Scandinavian influence and power. She married Igor, the grand Duke of Kiev. Igor was a varjaeger (a Swedish warrior fighting for the Rus for money) and his birth name was Ingvar (His father Rurik was also a Swedish varjaeger, fighting for the Rus for money). Igor (Ingvar) was second or third generation Rus ruling the Baltics, Kiev and Novgorod and more. During the 8:th and 9:th century the Swedish Rus established trade paths from Kiev and Novgorod to Scandinavia, Constantinopel, Jerusalem, Baghdad, the Caspian Sea and connected trade routes to the silk road. Not to mention the trade routes via Sweden and Scandinavia to Germany, Britain, France and Portugal and Spain. So to say Swedish vikings did not play a huge part in establishing Russia and Ukraine is simply not true. We (Sweden) taught you long range trade and we taught you how to unify your myriad of tiny tribes to one huge superpower. We were the first who did this in Russia and Ukraine. I bet there are still millions of Russians and Ukrainians that has Swedish ancestors from time years 700-1050. It's probably just like in Britain where more than 30% of the population has Viking ancestors. It's also an unquestionable fact that the name of Russa comes from the Swedish vikings who called themselves the Rus, which means men who rows. And I can tell you, there were a lot of rowing over the Baltic Sea and up through Russian rivvers and then even on to Constantinople and Jerusalem. The Vikings from nowadays middle of Sweden were not as prone to quick raides and then quickly disapear as the Danish and Norwegian Vikings. In ancient Norse language the word Viking means pirate or plunderer or looter. The mid Swedish "Vikings" had more intentions to establish trade routes and seizing power long term to collect tax. Therefore they did not call themselves Vikings but Rus (men who row). In turn, the land and people they won supremacy over lived quite good lives and the trade boomed all along the rivers where the Rus ruled for a couple of hundred years. And this was only the short story about the north route of the Mid Swedish "Vikings". The story is quite the same with the south route through the east.
Ignore all the comments, it was actually a black guy who founded Russia, just google Alexander Pushkin. afrolegends.com/2010/03/30/alexander-pushkin-the-black-father-of-russian-literature/ And the vikings themselves where also black people : www.africaresource.com/rasta/articles/the-ancient-celts-and-vikings-were-black-people-by-dr-clyde-winters/ in fact all Europe was ruled by black people in the dark ages www.topix.com/forum/afam/TBFN6G4004DS9JKHC
Rurick family members recently took DNA test and what it showed was they were not swedish but of Finnish decent.the Rus were a clan of Finn's who controlled northern swedin ,spoke swedish and ruled under the swedish flag.also known as helsingis .in my opinion Finn's in Russia asked thier cousin s for backup.archelogical evidence from northern Sweden shows Eastern influence much different then that of southern sweden.swedes refuse to acknowledge how much the Finn's had to do with thier success during the Viking age.this video should be called Finnish Vikings from Sweden who founded Russia
Nope you're out in deep waters here, because They found out that the DNA was traced back to the Finno-swedish population and not as closely with Finno-ugrians.
Only because Rurik had haplogroup N doesn't mean he was Finnish. It means his paternal ancestors probably came from Finnic people. I'm Scandinavian and my haplogroup is associated with people from UK and that dosen't mean i am British, infact i have no British ancestors in my family tree. People take the haplogroup to seriously. It dosen't have that much importance.
swedes and Finns are the most related ethnic groups. Due to intense mixing. Western finns are originally swedish settlers. You know Swedish is the second language of Finland? Swedes and Finns have intermixed for a thousand years. We are literally the most related ethnic groups. Western finns are all descendants of Swedish settlers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_colonisation_of_Finland
Yes, 50% Of Russian people have Aryan haplogroup R1a and up to 7% in StPetersburg have North Germanic haplogroup I1 (Haplogroup I1 is exclusive to North germanics, so the only way for one to have it is by having Scandinavian ancestors) Also we are blonde, blue eyed and very tall just like our Germanic brothers
@@henrik4630 Rurik wasn't even a Viking. He was originally a leader of a mercenary band. Soldiers for hire. He didn't hoard plunder to bring home to enrich his people, or lead a migration of his people to new lands. If he had done any of that, then he would have been a Viking. Instead, he left his homeland as a mercenary to enrich himself and stay abroad, bringing no more of his tribe with him.
I've heard that either swedes or poles founded russia. In any case sweden de facto ruled russia 1611-1613 and poland years before. Sigismund was king lver both poland and sweden.. mmm those times..poles and swedes has a great empire.
@@thomasfloyd1502 Sweden didn't exist to begin with so it is impossible that they could have done anything at that time. Scandinavia was inhabited by many north germanic tribes at the time. Svitjod was the area were the Svear lived at the time and it is located around the Stockholm area in the middle of the country to the east.
@@gustaf3811 there are many websites that are taking a second look at this.the sagas which many use as a basis for t North Germanic history refers to Finland as a kingdom and that the kvens had kings.swedes have usurped Finnish history after years of occupation.kvenland .com has a pretty good take on what happend a take that after years of research I tend to agreed with.the only reason Sweden was not overun by the Norwegians and Danes was because of its alliance with the kvens.kvenland .com rurik dynasty
@@2AKgym Russians are not Scandinavians, they have partly a genetic make up from Scandinavia but also mongolian and Slavic ancestry. Which means you're a multi-racial people.
@@gustaf3811 Realistically speaking, everyone in Europe are multi-racial people, apart from some tiny outliers like the Basque, which was the result of isolation and inbreeding from isolation in the mountains, also resulting in its own unique language. The creation of the Russian people is much like the Normans, where Norse people, again, settled in Normandy and mixed with Frankish people in the area, mixing "genes", language, and culture. But generally it's had a very small influence on the gene pool. It wasn't a 50/50 mix, more like a 5/95 mix. The vast majority of Normans were ethnically Frankish, and the vast majority of Russians are ethnically Slavic. People need to deal with it. And Bart Nuck needs to take a heritage test instead of using his gut-feeling to determine his ancestry.
There is no evidence that Rurik had N1C1 only that his family line had it. So it could either have been that the haplogroup N1C1 came from another family line. We know that adoption happened even this early so if Rurik had no "real" descendents it would mean he either adopted or one of his children had.
If you are pale or blond you know great great grandma was raped. Iol I happen to live in Ros land where the russians came from. According to historian they came out from the Great River Dal just opposite to St.Petersburg. Several miles upstream was a huge settlement by the Lake Bass. It flouroshed due to the access of Salmon and became a sea farer community. The oldest findings are just at my big farming property today. Hopefully searching russians will also find a connection to this place. Even if they invade us wkth the might of a superpower they will be regarded amd welcomed as a villain son coming home to a fragile father's village.
Only Ugro-Finnic peoples down there!!! SO no, the name does not come from the river. It was Rus, pronounced ROOS, not Ros. Today Russia is called Rhossia because they wanted to be the 3rd Rome, they wanted to be reminiscent of the Greeks!
@@2AKgym Lmao..thats like an eskimo telling an American colonist. " we must unite or i will force u". Who the hell wants to unite with savages? Not to mention there is no historical reason or links whats so ever why Russia shouls unite wirh Sweden lmao..There are far more links for Sweden in Ukraine then in Russia...but no way in hell would Sweden want to unite with 3rd world countries like Russia or Ukraine..
It's a fabrication, of course. German and Scandinavian sources reported the opposite and tell about Slavic colonists, who brought them laws, technology like smelting of metal, art writing - runes and even agriculture.
Oh yeah, the anti-Russian paranoya propaganda works well, as it seems. If you don't like the information, call the person "Russian paid troll". The funny thing is, after hundreds of articles in Western propaganda press about the alleged "paid Russian trolls", not even one Western "journalist" was able to call even ONE such troll even by his social network name. Yes, your mass media regards you as absoltely brainless idi*ts. Listen, brainwashed fascist propaganda victim, it is not my fault, that your historians lied to you. This is what medieval German authors wrote. Or were they also paid by Kremlin? :D
Hahaha! This is pure shizophrenia. First you demonstrate us, how great you and your country are, allegedly "no false sense of national pride" etc... And right after that you are splitting the dumbest Western propaganda mems and show that you are nothing but a disgusting, brainwashed racist, pig. Watch your own behavior, propaganda zombie. Have you ever heard about the Pavlov's dogs? You read something inconvinient from a Russian, as you think, and immediately you are shooting back with a series of racism and idiotic propaganda. The Russia in your weak, brainwashed mind doesn't have anything to do with the reality, poor boy. You're a classical, incited fascist, this Russia is only existing on your TV screen. Russia's 100 peoples don't see any dictatorship and I can assure you that Russia's mass media is far more pluralistic and show much more different views on the same events than Western propagada machine.
Mark Kust, Russians in the north have a higher Ugro-finnic percentage, this are Fins who were assimilated linguistically. So it is not an evidence for anything. Russians or Slavs spread on a huge territory and assimilated or integrated many different groups.
The founder of the Rurik dynasty and the founder of the Rus state are not synonyms! The same thing: The founder of the Bernadotte dynasty was a Frenchman, a French general who founded the Bernadotte dynasty of the kings of Sweden, which does not mean that it was the French who founded Sweden! Alas, the authors of the video are ignorant and have not read the Russian chronicles, in which Russia with a tribal composition is mentioned in the time of history long before the appearance of the Rurik dynasty, just like the Bernadotts in Sweden.
@Varog You are inaccurate in terminology, because the word Viking is not an ethnic group or a tribe, a Viking is not a people at all! Viking in the languages of the peoples of Scandinavia means literaly - bandit( pirate) - a concept that the Scandinavians applied to sea robber, regardless of the nationality of the sea robber (Somaly pirate). Unlike the Slavic (Russian) term - Varyag , which is not synonymous with the concept of a sea robber! Varyag is not a synonym for the word Viking! Alas, only fools and ignoramuses equate the word Viking (bandit) and the word Varyag - because word Varyag means belonging to the cult of a pagan deity among the Slavs, perhaps this is a pagan cult of the deity Svarog
@Vandal Read the Scandinavian saga of Olaf the son of Tryrgva (Olav Tryggvasons saga) is a saga of the life of the Baptist of Norway), which literally says: "Vikings attacked our ship at sea, they were Estonians" (Estonians not Scandinavian ethnos, just common sea robbers). Therefore, the Scandinavian term "Vikings" should be translated in the text of the saga as follows: "Sea robbers attacked our ship at sea, they were Estonians"
@Aryan 1) Explanation: Vikings is not a Finnish word! This word is actually Swedish, which does not mean ethnicity, because it literally means "people from the bay" - which in Swedish became the concept of sea robbery, as an analogue of European terms of sea robbery: pirate, corsair, filibuster and so on ..). the bay in Swedish is Vik, but in Finnish the bay is Lahti The classic Western European Vikings are Danes, alas, these are Finns! Nevertheless, the Finns are mentioned in Russian chronicles as part of the Russian fleets that attacked Constantinople in the 9th century and in the joint campaign of the Novgorodians against the Swedish city of Sigtuna in the 12th century. 2) The Pillage of Sigtuna was an event in the summer of 1187 described in the Eric Chronicles and in annals from the 14th century. According to the chronicle as quoted below, the town of Sigtuna was burnt by Karelians on August 12. Archbishop Johannes of Uppsala was killed near the Almarestäkets fort. At that time, Sigtuna was the most important town of medieval Sweden. The Eric Chronicles describes the events as follows: Sweden then suffered serious harm, From the Karelians, causing great alarm. They sailed into Lake Mälar from the sea, Whether calm or stormy it might be, Secretly within the Svealand isles In stealthily advancing files. Once their minds to the idea did turn, That they the town of Sigtuna should burn, And so thoroughly they put it to the flame, That it since then has never been the same. There Archbishop Jon was killed, A deed that many a heathen thrilled. According to the Eric Chronicles, Jon Jarl was also killed during the incident. The chronicle also describes that these events eventually led to the founding of Stockholm by Birger Jarl, who wanted to protect Sweden from sea invasions.
@Aryan English writers were the first to romanticize piracy. Given the fact that the modern Smali Piarts are exactly the same pirates as the Vikings of the 10th century.
Well this is highly non-sensical "a French general who founded the Bernadotte dynasty of the kings of Sweden, which does not mean that it was the French who founded Sweden! ". Of course the Bernadotte didnt found sweden..they only entered the swedish monarchy in 1818! Theyre quite new. In terms of whoi foudned sweden, you have to ask the question. Do you mean modern Sweden, or do you mean Sweden when the Geates still existed? Of course we can find out who founded whichever one of these you want to know about. This isnt the point though. The name Rus comes from the swedish vikings from Roslagen. In fact the name for sweden in Finnish and Estonian is still Routsi and Rootsi to this day. Even if the first rulers of russia were not scandinavians, there is still no doubt that this name was atleast borrowed into your lands from the swedish Rus vikings.
+ Field Commander Cousland. The name of land was Rus 9-12 century. "Russkaya Zemlya" is used onwards from 12 century. Rossiya is used onwards from 16 century. Rus is not Russia, just like Rome is not Romania.
+Field Commander Cousland, you are liar. The land was called ρώς, and people (vikings) who signed the treaty in 911 were Karl, Ingjald, Farulf, Vermund, Hrollaf, Gunnar, Harold, Kami, Frithleif, Hroarr, Angantyr, Throand, Leithulf, Fast, and Steinvith. p.s. There are no such words in Latin as "Rossiya", "Zemlya" or "Russkaya", but because you're lying about that, you already know why you're lying about it. SO: Rus is not Russia, just like Rome is not Romania.
The treaty of 911 has only ρώς, in it together with only vikings name, thus there was no such thing as "Rossiya" before 15 century or "Russkaya zemlya" before 12 century, and Rus is not Russia, just like Rome is not Romania.
You are lying again, because there's no original Byzantium text survived, but only transcription in cyrillic, it means couldn't be made earlier than 12 century. Thus there was no "Ρωσία" in 945, but ρώς, and Rus is not Russia, just like Rome is not Romania.
+Field Commander Cousland, You don't like being caught on your lies, I see. But hey, I will be happy to uncover every your lie, and to prove with historical facts that it was Rus, not Russia, just like Rome was not Romania
People overlook this fact always, we Russians are SCANDINAVIANS living southeast of our original Homeland. The reason not all Russians look like SCANDINAVIANS is because some are mixed with turkics and some SCANDINAVIANS are mixed with Celts and Mediterraneans (Vikings took other people's women as wifes) But in every way we are still ecandinavian and in our mindset even we are Scandinavian We were the only people to colonize entire Asia, just like our Germanic brothers Brother wars have to stop! Russian and Germanic brothers need to come together and defend our people from the Anglo Saxons and the Arabs and the Chinese!
Genetic evidence is very clear. Russians are not Scandinavian, though many Russians have Scandinavian ancestry inherited not only from the time of Rurik but also later centuries in urban centers. There are two major substratum in Russians. In the region North of Moscow stretching all the way to St. Petersburg, ethnic Russians are mostly of Finnic stock and cluster very closely with Fins and Estonians, while speaking a Slavic language. Central and Southern west Russia share genetic continuity with other Slavs, like the Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians
Russians know about. It. And moscow is not so old.. For example as archeology discovered.. Varangians from birka appeared near Smolensk as early as790ad
@Constantine well Who owned Aldagabjorg then?
@Constantine its the first official Russian capital nowadays known as Staraja Ladoga but it was founded not by russians
It's true. Old stories tell of the boatmen and the first unifiyer of the land. Boatmen came from Sweden and one man brought order to the land.
The amount of mental gymnastics in this comment section is fucking hilarious
Olympic level 😂
Russians having a heart attack after watching this.
thats what you think
Don’t you think maybe Russians know this? I mean it’s Russian history, there’s no debate.
It's our history and I'm proud to be a East SCANDINAVIAN
Russians just laugh at you stupid fucks
@@2AKgym ahahah noooo we are slavs)) d n a
So proud to be born historical very Swedish
TLDR: Basicly the swedish vikings got drunk and sailed in the wrong direction :)
There was never a Viking Ending though. The just settled down like they always wanted to do
Ingen fara Ryssland tacka oss senare 😎
Make Sweden great again
Some bonds don't break with the passing of time.
Thanks! First time I se this on you tube!
You're welcome!
William the conqueror were Viking lineage, too.
Richard the lion
People overlook this fact always, we Russians are SCANDINAVIANS living southeast of our original Homeland.
The reason not all Russians look like SCANDINAVIANS is because some are mixed with turkics and some SCANDINAVIANS are mixed with Celts and Mediterraneans (Vikings took other people's women as wifes)
But in every way we are still ecandinavian and in our mindset even we are Scandinavian
We were the only people to colonize entire Asia, just like our Germanic brothers
Brother wars have to stop! Russian and Germanic brothers need to come together and defend our people from the Anglo Saxons and the Arabs and the Chinese!
uh wait so according to this video... who wrote the first written history of Russia?
How can you found anything, if the land you claim,was never your land. The same land, that was only reachable by traveling overseas
Actually Ruriks DNA is Finno-Ugrik not swedish. That area where they lived that time is now called Sweden.
Balts
Finno Ugric DNA is not a thing
Haplogroup N is present in both Finnish and Turkic populations
Rurik could as easily have been a Turk as a Finn (most likely just a Scandinavian with some saami ancestor)
Stop trying to appropriate our history just because you have none, finngol
Rurik was Swede
His DNA is Slavic.
About time.who says Finn's weren't vikings
Nope if you look at the analysis it points to the Finno- swedish population in Finnland. Not Finno-Ugrik.
A group of foreigners that speak a foreign language, practice foreign religion, have foreign customs, and that have for years raided and robbed the coasts of Baltic sea populated by slavic and chud tribes are invited to rule by the very people they have robbed and raided for years?
Much more likely that Rurik and his retinue were west slavs with familiar customs and who spoke the same language. There is no mention ever of translators of interpreters, meaning Rurik and the slavs that invited them understood each other perfectly well.
"What was viking jewelry doing in the hands of Russia's early rulers? 200 years after the end of the viking age?" - the same thing that Rhineland Ulfberht swords were doing in Scandinavia and Volga Bulgaria, same thing that American smartphones are doing in China and Korean cars doing in Canada. By this movie's logic, to paraphrase Michael Zadornov, in a thousand years archaeologists will claim that Russians originated and lived in Africa, because there are Kalashnikov rifles everywhere.
The Tale of Past Years (the Primary Chronicle) wasn't written by one monk Nestor, it's a collection of various accounts. In the Chronicle, Rus are clearly stated as being Varangians along with Swedes, Normans, Angles, and a bunch of others. This fact alone excludes the possibility that Rus were Scandinavian possession.
The Chronicle mentions that Chud and Slavic tribes sought help because they didn't have order. There is an ongoing discussion about that word, since Hypatian Codex that the Primary Chronicle Includes, has a different word in the same spot: outfit. Not the outfit like a retinue, but an outfit that you wear, or more accurately, a representation. That is, Slavs and Chuds did not call someone to organize them and bring order, but to represent them. Represent before whom, you ask? Khazar khanate, obviously. Kiev at the time was one of the prominent border towns of the rich Khazar khanate, and tribes of what would later become Southern and Eastern Rus all paid tribute to it. Slavs and Chud tribes that called for Rurik to rule them were only the northenmost third of what would later become Kievan Rus.
It's important to note that for the entirety of what is considered Medieval period, Rus was entirely unlike the medieval societies of Western Europe. Princes were displaces and re-elected all the time by the majority of veche (a popular congress, similar to Scandinavian Thing). Rurik was called into a similar situation; he was elected more to represent the people and organize military defense and less to rule and organize the people's daily lives.
Your right bro.the rurick family recently took DNA test and it showed they were not swedish but finnish.it was more likely that Finn's from Russia called thier cousin s in Sweden for back up.try telling that to a Swede or a Russian bot of whom have absorbed if not erased Finnish history.
@@thomasfloyd1704 Nope the DNA test included traces from Scandinavia and it was traced to the Swedish population in Finnland because they are closest relatives.
Also they found out that other traces in the DNA could be linked to the population north of Stockholm. Which is located in Roslagen were it is said that the Rus vikings came from.
The Finno-Swedes in Finnland are called Rutsi and not Routsi like they call the Swedes.
@@gustaf3811 u obviously don't know anything about genetic s read a book
@@gustaf3811 and genetically they are not relatives not even kissing cousin s
@@thomasfloyd1704 Did I hit a nerv? But the facts are that the DNA was traced to the areas in western middle parts of Finland and eastern parts of Sweden. So yeah you got no idea how DNA tests works.
Bullshit. The Slavic nation in the territory of modern Russia is known thousands years before even Rurik.
Exactly ☝️👍
Ukrainians having a heart attack after watching this.
some say they came from cossacks
actually first russian kingdoms were on territory of Ukraine. So Ukrainians are the real russians. while modern "russia" is result of mongol rape.
@@Caesar88888 The fact is that modern ukrainians have more mongoloid genes than modern russians...
@@Caesar88888 Not just! The varangians also had territory on Russia and Belarus also!
@@csabafamin2277 not fact - russian bullshit propaganda.
Anyone else up on the fact that the Rus were of Finnish decent!!!! It really is an eye opener when u look into it
Yes, everyone is on it. It has long been established that Russians have finno-ugru DNA
HAHAHAHA Rus was Swedish vikings from Roslagen in Stockholm. Finnish haha go drink your vodka instead. Finland has nothing.
According to some Finns, all vikings were finns and ruled the world. A country just over 100 years old desperate for history.
@Sibiryak Routsi is the finnish name for Sweden. How does that make Rus finnish?
@@Kalindify They must be trolls
Are tartain people actually Swedish people, and the history is just that , his story ?
Russia was grounded by Bulgaria. In the 10th century. The heiress of the Bulgarian Tsar Boris (853-890), Princess Olga (894-960) of Pleskov (Pliska, Bulgaria), established statehood in Kievan Rus and began to spread Christianity, together with the rules for establishing a state administration. Bulgarian monks supplied Christian books to begin the formation of writing culture in the newly formed state. This spread to the north.
Vikings came later to Russia to rob. Yes, there were Vikings in Russia. But not to found it. Finding Viking bracelets in Moscow is no proof that the Vikings formed Russia :-) These are fabrications that are rather ridiculous and unprofessional from a historical point of view. I was embarrassed to read some of the naive comments below the video. People need to be more educated and able to think.
There were Vikings who later participated in the life of the Russian state, but not as founders, but as groups who settled during the regular raids on these lands.
The Russians are the so-called Slavs with a Finno-Tatar gene with Mongolian admixtures and have little in common with the German genetic group.
Finally, one clarification: the term "Slavs" is not genetically based, but is a paradigm introduced at the end of the 18th century by a Russian aristocrat from the royal (Тsar) family, with the idea of finding a common feature between Russia and other linguistically similar communities and to unite them around Russia as the most a large country of this language community.
Princess Olga, that you mention, was not daughter of Boris, as you say, she was Daughter of Gostomysl (the first slavic grand Duke of Novgorod).
Boris had many daughters but none of them named Olga.
883 Boris resigned to a more peaceful life as a monk until his death and his son Vladimir took over the throne.
The rulers of Novgorod before Gostomysl were all Swedish rowing warriors, called Rus in several ancient documents (i.e. The Nestor Chronicles and the Ibn Fadlan).
Novgorod had been ruled by the Swedish Rus for on an off for 200 years before Gostomysl took over the power.
The Swedish Rus were year 860 even asked to come back and rule over Novgorod to help unite the plentiful smaller tribes in the area.
When the job was done, Gostomysl chased out the Swedish varjaeger (Swedish warrior fighting for the Swedish Rus for money) out of the city and he put himself on the throne.
Olgas birth name was Helga, indicating Scandinavian influence and power.
She married Igor, the grand Duke of Kiev.
Igor was a varjaeger (a Swedish warrior fighting for the Rus for money) and his birth name was Ingvar (His father Rurik was also a Swedish varjaeger, fighting for the Rus for money).
Igor (Ingvar) was second or third generation Rus ruling the Baltics, Kiev and Novgorod and more.
During the 8:th and 9:th century the Swedish Rus established trade paths from Kiev and Novgorod to Scandinavia, Constantinopel, Jerusalem, Baghdad, the Caspian Sea and connected trade routes to the silk road.
Not to mention the trade routes via Sweden and Scandinavia to Germany, Britain, France and Portugal and Spain.
So to say Swedish vikings did not play a huge part in establishing Russia and Ukraine is simply not true.
We (Sweden) taught you long range trade and we taught you how to unify your myriad of tiny tribes to one huge superpower.
We were the first who did this in Russia and Ukraine.
I bet there are still millions of Russians and Ukrainians that has Swedish ancestors from time years 700-1050.
It's probably just like in Britain where more than 30% of the population has Viking ancestors.
It's also an unquestionable fact that the name of Russa comes from the Swedish vikings who called themselves the Rus, which means men who rows.
And I can tell you, there were a lot of rowing over the Baltic Sea and up through Russian rivvers and then even on to Constantinople and Jerusalem.
The Vikings from nowadays middle of Sweden were not as prone to quick raides and then quickly disapear as the Danish and Norwegian Vikings.
In ancient Norse language the word Viking means pirate or plunderer or looter.
The mid Swedish "Vikings" had more intentions to establish trade routes and seizing power long term to collect tax.
Therefore they did not call themselves Vikings but Rus (men who row).
In turn, the land and people they won supremacy over lived quite good lives and the trade boomed all along the rivers where the Rus ruled for a couple of hundred years.
And this was only the short story about the north route of the Mid Swedish "Vikings".
The story is quite the same with the south route through the east.
Ignore all the comments, it was actually a black guy who founded Russia, just google Alexander Pushkin.
afrolegends.com/2010/03/30/alexander-pushkin-the-black-father-of-russian-literature/
And the vikings themselves where also black people :
www.africaresource.com/rasta/articles/the-ancient-celts-and-vikings-were-black-people-by-dr-clyde-winters/
in fact all Europe was ruled by black people in the dark ages
www.topix.com/forum/afam/TBFN6G4004DS9JKHC
Pure retardation.
Ruled by black people.
So yeah it was DaRk aGe
Found the black supremacist
Rurick family members recently took DNA test and what it showed was they were not swedish but of Finnish decent.the Rus were a clan of Finn's who controlled northern swedin ,spoke swedish and ruled under the swedish flag.also known as helsingis .in my opinion Finn's in Russia asked thier cousin s for backup.archelogical evidence from northern Sweden shows Eastern influence much different then that of southern sweden.swedes refuse to acknowledge how much the Finn's had to do with thier success during the Viking age.this video should be called Finnish Vikings from Sweden who founded Russia
Nope you're out in deep waters here, because They found out that the DNA was traced back to the Finno-swedish population and not as closely with Finno-ugrians.
Only because Rurik had haplogroup N doesn't mean he was Finnish. It means his paternal ancestors probably came from Finnic people. I'm Scandinavian and my haplogroup is associated with people from UK and that dosen't mean i am British, infact i have no British ancestors in my family tree. People take the haplogroup to seriously. It dosen't have that much importance.
swedes and Finns are the most related ethnic groups. Due to intense mixing. Western finns are originally swedish settlers. You know Swedish is the second language of Finland? Swedes and Finns have intermixed for a thousand years. We are literally the most related ethnic groups. Western finns are all descendants of Swedish settlers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_colonisation_of_Finland
They were of N1c1 south Balto-Slavic descent.
@@scythian-rus5421 There is two lineages. One is R1a-YP1337.
Can DNA Solve this debate?
Yes, 50% Of Russian people have Aryan haplogroup R1a and up to 7% in StPetersburg have North Germanic haplogroup I1
(Haplogroup I1 is exclusive to North germanics, so the only way for one to have it is by having Scandinavian ancestors)
Also we are blonde, blue eyed and very tall just like our Germanic brothers
@@2AKgym Most russians I've seen look nothing like Scandinavians..
It has solved the debate and it shows rurik was of Finnish decent
@@2AKgym Tall and blue eyed isn't necessarily an aryan feature. There are tribes in both South america, Asia and Africa with blue eyes.
@@henrik4630 Rurik wasn't even a Viking. He was originally a leader of a mercenary band. Soldiers for hire.
He didn't hoard plunder to bring home to enrich his people, or lead a migration of his people to new lands. If he had done any of that, then he would have been a Viking. Instead, he left his homeland as a mercenary to enrich himself and stay abroad, bringing no more of his tribe with him.
Det är sant! Sverige, den äkta Roslandet!
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I've heard that either swedes or poles founded russia. In any case sweden de facto ruled russia 1611-1613 and poland years before. Sigismund was king lver both poland and sweden..
mmm those times..poles and swedes has a great empire.
Finn's bro
@@thomasfloyd1502 Finns were owned by the Swedes at the time bro.
@@gustaf3811 swedes barley controlled the southern tip of Sweden during the Viking age
@@thomasfloyd1502 Sweden didn't exist to begin with so it is impossible that they could have done anything at that time.
Scandinavia was inhabited by many north germanic tribes at the time.
Svitjod was the area were the Svear lived at the time and it is located around the Stockholm area in the middle of the country to the east.
@@gustaf3811 there are many websites that are taking a second look at this.the sagas which many use as a basis for t
North Germanic history refers to Finland as a kingdom and that the kvens had kings.swedes have usurped Finnish history after years of occupation.kvenland .com has a pretty good take on what happend a take that after years of research I tend to agreed with.the only reason Sweden was not overun by the Norwegians and Danes was because of its alliance with the kvens.kvenland .com rurik dynasty
"Swedish tribal mercenaries founded Russia"
There, fixed it for you.
@@2AKgym I'd like a source of that DNA Test.
@@2AKgym Russians are not Scandinavians, they have partly a genetic make up from Scandinavia but also mongolian and Slavic ancestry. Which means you're a multi-racial people.
Gustaf , thank that you told me with DNA I have 😂 what I would do without your magic and incredible knowledge 😂😂😂 moron
@@gustaf3811 Realistically speaking, everyone in Europe are multi-racial people, apart from some tiny outliers like the Basque, which was the result of isolation and inbreeding from isolation in the mountains, also resulting in its own unique language.
The creation of the Russian people is much like the Normans, where Norse people, again, settled in Normandy and mixed with Frankish people in the area, mixing "genes", language, and culture. But generally it's had a very small influence on the gene pool. It wasn't a 50/50 mix, more like a 5/95 mix.
The vast majority of Normans were ethnically Frankish, and the vast majority of Russians are ethnically Slavic. People need to deal with it.
And Bart Nuck needs to take a heritage test instead of using his gut-feeling to determine his ancestry.
@@bartnuck3432 Oh what knowledge do you provide? 😂 non so why should I listen to a buffoon with no evidence for the contrary.
Why is Norman Theory given like as single proper theory?
Swedish Viking Founded Ukraine then Mongols tried to destroy then wiped out the Russ
So-called mongolian invasion HAS NEVER EXISTED
@@Strannik191 so much ignorance in this comment
@@Strannik191 shut up bitch no one wants your fairy tales
Yeah. Sorry about that.
*The Irish Founded Russia*
Highlander
Hållkäften söderlänning
I like this story more than with sweets 😂
There is no evidence that Rurik had N1C1 only that his family line had it. So it could either have been that the haplogroup N1C1 came from another family line. We know that adoption happened even this early so if Rurik had no "real" descendents it would mean he either adopted or one of his children had.
There is another lineage R-YP1337 that has been discovered.
If you are pale or blond you know great great grandma was raped. Iol
I happen to live in Ros land where the russians came from. According to historian they came out from the Great River Dal just opposite to St.Petersburg. Several miles upstream was a huge settlement by the Lake Bass. It flouroshed due to the access of Salmon and became a sea farer community. The oldest findings are just at my big farming property today. Hopefully searching russians will also find a connection to this place. Even if they invade us wkth the might of a superpower they will be regarded amd welcomed as a villain son coming home to a fragile father's village.
Only Ugro-Finnic peoples down there!!! SO no, the name does not come from the river. It was Rus, pronounced ROOS, not Ros. Today Russia is called Rhossia because they wanted to be the 3rd Rome, they wanted to be reminiscent of the Greeks!
Sweden and Russian should unite as brothers, willingly, not by force.
@@2AKgym Lmao..thats like an eskimo telling an American colonist. " we must unite or i will force u". Who the hell wants to unite with savages? Not to mention there is no historical reason or links whats so ever why Russia shouls unite wirh Sweden lmao..There are far more links for Sweden in Ukraine then in Russia...but no way in hell would Sweden want to unite with 3rd world countries like Russia or Ukraine..
@@alekshukhevych2644
OMG shut up jew! I wasn't talking about Israel
And "Ukraine" isn't a country
@Aryan No, but there was a clear distinction between slavic tribes and non-slavic tribes in Rus manuscripts.
Yep , Russians vitiazi founded sweeden england germany and Russia
It's a fabrication, of course. German and Scandinavian sources reported the opposite and tell about Slavic colonists, who brought them laws, technology like smelting of metal, art writing - runes and even agriculture.
Go to bed, russian paid troll. Damn you are everywhere these days!
Oh yeah, the anti-Russian paranoya propaganda works well, as it seems. If you don't like the information, call the person "Russian paid troll". The funny thing is, after hundreds of articles in Western propaganda press about the alleged "paid Russian trolls", not even one Western "journalist" was able to call even ONE such troll even by his social network name. Yes, your mass media regards you as absoltely brainless idi*ts.
Listen, brainwashed fascist propaganda victim, it is not my fault, that your historians lied to you. This is what medieval German authors wrote. Or were they also paid by Kremlin? :D
Genetic studies show that russians from northwest of Russia share a lot of similar genes with scandinavians
Hahaha! This is pure shizophrenia. First you demonstrate us, how great you and your country are, allegedly "no false sense of national pride" etc... And right after that you are splitting the dumbest Western propaganda mems and show that you are nothing but a disgusting, brainwashed racist, pig.
Watch your own behavior, propaganda zombie. Have you ever heard about the Pavlov's dogs? You read something inconvinient from a Russian, as you think, and immediately you are shooting back with a series of racism and idiotic propaganda.
The Russia in your weak, brainwashed mind doesn't have anything to do with the reality, poor boy.
You're a classical, incited fascist, this Russia is only existing on your TV screen. Russia's 100 peoples don't see any dictatorship and I can assure you that Russia's mass media is far more pluralistic and show much more different views on the same events than Western propagada machine.
Mark Kust, Russians in the north have a higher Ugro-finnic percentage, this are Fins who were assimilated linguistically. So it is not an evidence for anything. Russians or Slavs spread on a huge territory and assimilated or integrated many different groups.
The founder of the Rurik dynasty and the founder of the Rus state are not synonyms! The same thing: The founder of the Bernadotte dynasty was a Frenchman, a French general who founded the Bernadotte dynasty of the kings of Sweden, which does not mean that it was the French who founded Sweden! Alas, the authors of the video are ignorant and have not read the Russian chronicles, in which Russia with a tribal composition is mentioned in the time of history long before the appearance of the Rurik dynasty, just like the Bernadotts in Sweden.
@Varog You are inaccurate in terminology, because the word Viking is not an ethnic group or a tribe, a Viking is not a people at all! Viking in the languages of the peoples of Scandinavia means literaly - bandit( pirate) - a concept that the Scandinavians applied to sea robber, regardless of the nationality of the sea robber (Somaly pirate). Unlike the Slavic (Russian) term - Varyag , which is not synonymous with the concept of a sea robber! Varyag is not a synonym for the word Viking! Alas, only fools and ignoramuses equate the word Viking (bandit) and the word Varyag - because word Varyag means belonging to the cult of a pagan deity among the Slavs, perhaps this is a pagan cult of the deity Svarog
@Vandal Read the Scandinavian saga of Olaf the son of Tryrgva (Olav Tryggvasons saga) is a saga of the life of the Baptist of Norway), which literally says: "Vikings attacked our ship at sea, they were Estonians" (Estonians not Scandinavian ethnos, just common sea robbers). Therefore, the Scandinavian term "Vikings" should be translated in the text of the saga as follows: "Sea robbers attacked our ship at sea, they were Estonians"
@Aryan 1) Explanation: Vikings is not a Finnish word! This word is actually Swedish, which does not mean ethnicity, because it literally means "people from the bay" - which in Swedish became the concept of sea robbery, as an analogue of European terms of sea robbery: pirate, corsair, filibuster and so on ..). the bay in Swedish is Vik, but in Finnish the bay is Lahti The classic Western European Vikings are Danes, alas, these are Finns! Nevertheless, the Finns are mentioned in Russian chronicles as part of the Russian fleets that attacked Constantinople in the 9th century and in the joint campaign of the Novgorodians against the Swedish city of Sigtuna in the 12th century. 2) The Pillage of Sigtuna was an event in the summer of 1187 described in the Eric Chronicles and in annals from the 14th century. According to the chronicle as quoted below, the town of Sigtuna was burnt by Karelians on August 12. Archbishop Johannes of Uppsala was killed near the Almarestäkets fort. At that time, Sigtuna was the most important town of medieval Sweden. The Eric Chronicles describes the events as follows:
Sweden then suffered serious harm,
From the Karelians, causing great alarm.
They sailed into Lake Mälar from the sea,
Whether calm or stormy it might be,
Secretly within the Svealand isles
In stealthily advancing files.
Once their minds to the idea did turn,
That they the town of Sigtuna should burn,
And so thoroughly they put it to the flame,
That it since then has never been the same.
There Archbishop Jon was killed,
A deed that many a heathen thrilled.
According to the Eric Chronicles, Jon Jarl was also killed during the incident. The chronicle also describes that these events eventually led to the founding of Stockholm by Birger Jarl, who wanted to protect Sweden from sea invasions.
@Aryan English writers were the first to romanticize piracy. Given the fact that the modern Smali Piarts are exactly the same pirates as the Vikings of the 10th century.
Well this is highly non-sensical "a French general who founded the Bernadotte dynasty of the kings of Sweden, which does not mean that it was the French who founded Sweden! ".
Of course the Bernadotte didnt found sweden..they only entered the swedish monarchy in 1818! Theyre quite new.
In terms of whoi foudned sweden, you have to ask the question. Do you mean modern Sweden, or do you mean Sweden when the Geates still existed?
Of course we can find out who founded whichever one of these you want to know about. This isnt the point though.
The name Rus comes from the swedish vikings from Roslagen. In fact the name for sweden in Finnish and Estonian is still Routsi and Rootsi to this day.
Even if the first rulers of russia were not scandinavians, there is still no doubt that this name was atleast borrowed into your lands from the swedish Rus vikings.
It was Rus, not Russia, just like Rome was not Romania.
+ Field Commander Cousland. The name of land was Rus 9-12 century. "Russkaya Zemlya" is used onwards from 12 century. Rossiya is used onwards from 16 century. Rus is not Russia, just like Rome is not Romania.
+Field Commander Cousland, you are liar. The land was called ρώς, and people (vikings) who signed the treaty in 911 were Karl, Ingjald, Farulf, Vermund, Hrollaf, Gunnar, Harold, Kami, Frithleif, Hroarr, Angantyr, Throand, Leithulf, Fast, and Steinvith. p.s. There are no such words in Latin as "Rossiya", "Zemlya" or "Russkaya", but because you're lying about that, you already know why you're lying about it. SO: Rus is not Russia, just like Rome is not Romania.
The treaty of 911 has only ρώς, in it together with only vikings name, thus there was no such thing as "Rossiya" before 15 century or "Russkaya zemlya" before 12 century, and Rus is not Russia, just like Rome is not Romania.
You are lying again, because there's no original Byzantium text survived, but only transcription in cyrillic, it means couldn't be made earlier than 12 century. Thus there was no "Ρωσία" in 945, but ρώς, and Rus is not Russia, just like Rome is not Romania.
+Field Commander Cousland, You don't like being caught on your lies, I see. But hey, I will be happy to uncover every your lie, and to prove with historical facts that it was Rus, not Russia, just like Rome was not Romania
People overlook this fact always, we Russians are SCANDINAVIANS living southeast of our original Homeland.
The reason not all Russians look like SCANDINAVIANS is because some are mixed with turkics and some SCANDINAVIANS are mixed with Celts and Mediterraneans (Vikings took other people's women as wifes)
But in every way we are still ecandinavian and in our mindset even we are Scandinavian
We were the only people to colonize entire Asia, just like our Germanic brothers
Brother wars have to stop! Russian and Germanic brothers need to come together and defend our people from the Anglo Saxons and the Arabs and the Chinese!
Genetic evidence is very clear. Russians are not Scandinavian, though many Russians have Scandinavian ancestry inherited not only from the time of Rurik but also later centuries in urban centers.
There are two major substratum in Russians. In the region North of Moscow stretching all the way to St. Petersburg, ethnic Russians are mostly of Finnic stock and cluster very closely with Fins and Estonians, while speaking a Slavic language.
Central and Southern west Russia share genetic continuity with other Slavs, like the Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians
Whatever you are smoking you need to stop !
The reason slot of Russian s have blonde hair and blue eyes is due to those Finnish ancestry not swedish
I have relatives in Russia and yet genetitly I'm a finn
Ahaha. No my friend, we are slavs)