Another misinformation map from a specific type of propaganda – “propaganda of historical maps”.
“Rus in 882” – this is:
1. Novgorod, which did not exist yet for about a hundred years.
2. lands of the future, still unestablished and unconquered Muscovy, which Kyiv princes would not reach for a couple of centuries.
3. and below, a tiny piece near the state capital: “proof” that Ukraine has no connection to Rus.
Comedy.
In reality, such spam has now appeared abundantly in the feed. For a long time, the orcs have decided to preach “history through maps” (maps, as always, are marked). Because a foreigner does not know the deep nuances, and therefore more easily swallows the “historical proof” that Russians and Ukrainians supposedly have equal rights to a “shared” historical heritage, thus suggesting the war is somehow justified by the orcs.
But we must know and prove that:
1. There is no evidence for this version (nonsense), they were created only 3 centuries after the emergence of Rus.
2. The proof exists in a single copy – our own chronicle, written only in the 12th century. Importantly: during the reign of a prince from Novgorod, whose mother was Swedish.
3. Nowhere in our chronicle do Rus princes ever call their family “Rurikids”. None of the princely elite up to the 12th century knew any supposed ancestor named Rurik.
4. The term “Rus” (meaning the original homeland) is applied in all places in the chronicles exclusively to a specific, clearly defined territory – within the perimeter of modern Kyiv, Chernihiv, parts of Cherkasy and Zhytomyr regions, and a bit on adjacent territories of Russia and Belarus (up to the Seym and Pripyat rivers).
5. Everything outside this perimeter was not Rus. These were colonies. And again, this is clearly stated in the chronicles (“And these are other nations that give tribute to Rus…”).
6. Eastern and Western contemporary sources (Bertinian chronicles, Ibn Khordadbeh), all places in our chronicles (even about the Scandinavian names of Oleg-Igor’s ambassadors), and archaeology (the same favorite by Normanists Shestovitsa) clearly confirm that the Vikings were subordinate to the Slavs. They were in the service of the Slavs, acting on their behalf as mercenaries and trade representatives. And the main Rus during Oleg’s time were those who swore by Slavic gods according to Slavic rituals – Perun and Veles. And never by Odin or Freyr.
Putin invents and preaches pseudo-historical nonsense, as The Guardian writes, because he needs to justify Muscovy’s rights to our land. And on the other hand, the Russians – a people that have not yet fully formed, are waging war against us partly for an identity they want to steal from us, killing the owner. In their schizophrenic inventions with Medinsky, the colony founded the metropolis. Kyiv was a village, and the nonexistent in the 9th century Novgorod was the first capital of Rus. Well, and the year 862 is a key date in history, because Putin believes our chronicle that 1000 km away from the capital of Rus, some non-Rus tribes could invite someone unidentified to rule them.
In fact, stories about “Ladoga – the first (Varangian) capital of Rus” are debunked by Scandinavian sagas.
The sagas mention that when Princess Ingegerd, daughter of Swedish King Olaf Skötkonung, married the Novgorod prince Yaroslav the Wise in 1019, she received the city of Aldeigjuborg (Old Ladoga) with adjacent lands as a dowry, and Ragnvald Ulfsson was appointed jarl (governor) of Ladoga – jarl of Västergötland (related to Ingegerd on her mother’s side) (Saga of Eymund). Ulf (Uleb) and Eyvind are the sons of Ragnvald. According to Scandinavian sources, Eyvind became jarl in Ladoga after his father’s death, and Uleb is mentioned in the chronicle in 1032 as the Novgorod military leader.
All of their Ladoga was a dowry from the Swedish king for our Rus prince Yaroslav the Wise.
These are our Ukrainian-Swedish relations on our Ukrainian-Swedish border.
Putin’s Muscovites have nothing to do with it. 🙂
