>Russians think they did this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(860)
>200 Russians fought
So they lost 150??
>>76655045
>200 russians fought
Maybe. But The rest of The 5000 were norse
>>76654983
>illiterate savages ruining the only bastion of knowledge, progress and enlightement in the time
Yup, it's scandis and russians alright
WE
>>76655283
>Raid was on a smaller scale than The other ones, nullifying The need for slavs as manpower
>Raid was before or early after Rurik, making scandi and slavic cooperation smaller
>Most of The varangian guard were scandinavian. Proving That Mainly scandinavians went down that route
>Slavs didn't have a seafaring culture.
Yes, indeed
>>76655219
Ahem, Rurik was a finn.
>>76655705
Ahem, The rest were not. And rurik was by all means culturally scandinavian
>>76655643
>Slavs didn't have a seafaring culture.
But finns did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OQ_hQXRRMA
>>76655749
>A DNA study conducted on the 5,000-year-old skeletal remains of three Middle Neolithic seal hunters from Gotland showed that they were related to modern-day Finns
ahem... WE wuz
>>76655761
Eestis=/=you
>>76655832
eesti = finns
>>76655643
>Slavs didn't have a seafaring culture.
>>76655880
Swedes like to claim shit like that.
>>76655880
A couple centuries too late i'm afraid
>>76655828
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kuningas
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/laiva#Finnish
>>76654983
swedish wewuzzers are the worst
>>76655749
>And rurik was by all means culturally scandinavian
so are contemporary Fins, so he's right regardless