Why are the west vikings more known as the east vikings? The

>>3135051
Because the west is more relevant than the west?

>>3135051
How were the west vikings not competent?

>>3135072
inb4 the cherry-picked meme image

Vikings have been historically over-hyped as warriors, leading to a push on this board to say they're the opposite: incompetent monk-molesters who never fought a competent military force and won.

The answer, OP, is that most people on this site probably live in the Anglosphere, or get their culture/history education from Anglos, and naturally Anglos only give a shit about the Vikings that were active in their neck of the woods vs. the Varangians or Kievan Rus.

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>>3135051
More known tho who? As>>3135640
Mentions , of course the English are going to talk about Ivar the Boneless, Harold Hardrada, Lied Ericsson, Rollo of Normandy, etc because they were important to English history. I'm sure Russian sources are full of the looters and rapists who plundered their way through thier areas.

>>3135051
I am going to refer to "Visivikings" and "Ostrovikings" from now on.

>>3135674
Russia was founded by, and is named after a Viking. Kiev was founded by a Viking. The slavs are known as such for a reason.

>>3135051
Because your english is bad.
Ruri and his son fucked up all the baby suo and mordvin around him so badly not a lot could be written extra.

>>3135751
I thought slavs are known as slaves because Romans and such used to own them.