UKRAINE AND RUSSIA WERE COLONIZED BY SWEDES
SWEDEN AND UKRAINE. THE VIKINGS (I)
In my days as a Spanish reader at the University of York I made contact with the Department of Scandinavian Languages and one of the researchers gave me to read the book by Johanes Bronsted "the Vikings" where the great runic influence of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland in the formation of Europe.
I also came into contact with the Sagas or epics of the Scandinavians. The Vikings were a people of great navigators. In their ash wood triremes they made forays into Spain, Portugal, England and Italy. Towns made for war and trade.
They marauded the cities, plundering everything they could: the wheat, the cattle, the women. They were of a strong moral complexion overwhelming in the context of the decadent customs of the late Roman Empire.
From Denmark came the barbarians from the north. Evaristo Castroviejo in one of his novels recounts how the Vikings took over Luarca after raiding all of Galicia, but where the most important invasions and settlements took place in the east of England.
All towns with the ending by and the suffix thorpe retain their Norse past: Whitby, Crossby, Edenthorpe, Armthorpe, Castlethorpe. Thorpe means village.
The Swedes spread across Old Rus' from the White Sea to the Black Sea. kyiv and Novgorod were founded by Prince Hoskuld. This presence was indicated in the patronymics Helgi in Swedish da Oleg and Olga, Waldemar is Vladimir and Igmar da Igor.
Now it turns out that names so characteristic of Holy Russia are Swedish. The hordes that arrived from Stockholm were made up of merchants rather than soldiers who were attracted by the fertile fields on the banks of the Dnieper.
At first they were pagans. They worshiped Thor, Hermes, and Valhalla.
Later they adopted the Christian religion by being baptized en masse through the preaching of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius. They practiced polygamy. They had patriarchal customs. Many children with many women. Not in vain was it called in ancient times Scandinavia Gentium Office (human nursery). Unfortunately the annals go on one side and politics on the other. The nationalist regime in kyiv abrogates its past. Nothing wants to know about its origins. Ukraine was part of the old Rus (another Scandinavian name) and its Swedish foundation, I know that by defending the Russification of this country, the largest in Europe, I am going against the grain. It matters little to me. I follow the advice of San Agustin “tolle et lege” (get up, drink and read) about which unfortunately my colleagues from the duerno journalism and politicians want nothing to do. They prefer to see the poor Ukrainians plunged into a bloodbath under the yoke of the sinister Zelensky
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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