Now Keiv Rus was Ruled by a swede for a while BUT What if sweden ruled/owned it? Would Sweden Become as big as Russia!?
Estonian by the DNA evidence, iirc.Now Keiv Rus was Ruled by a swede for a while
...the Bolotnikov Rebellion which backed a person who didn't even exist for the throne of Russia.
Well Estonians are basically Finns, and Finns are basically Swedes. So its all semantics really.Estonian by the DNA evidence, iirc.
Now Keiv Rus was Ruled by a swede for a while BUT What if sweden ruled/owned it? Would Sweden Become as big as Russia!?
Kievan Rus was long dead by the time the Swedes became a power of any note.
IIRC, the haplotype is not found very often in Scandinavia and the closest to this haplotype can be found on the coasts of Finland.I'm talking about the Rurikid y chromosome haplotype that is clearly of Finno-Ugric origin. Although apparently not Estonian. I don't know if I misremembered, or if the earliest announcements (that I'm remembering) didn't have enough data points for comparison.
I'm talking about the Rurikid y chromosome haplotype that is clearly of Finno-Ugric origin. Although apparently not Estonian. I don't know if I misremembered, or if the earliest announcements (that I'm remembering) didn't have enough data points for comparison.
IIRC, the haplotype is not found very often in Scandinavia and the closest to this haplotype can be found on the coasts of Finland.
Swedish princes fought in the kievan rus. The idea seems to be a Swedish king seizing the kievan throne.
That's not that outlandish, the early Scandinavian age was full of Danish kings becoming Kings of England and Swedish kings becoming King of Norway.
The idea is a Swedish Canute with a Baltic sea empire, is that any weirder than the otl Danish Canute's north sea empire?
With such a reasoning, there is also a large assimilated Uralic ("Finnish-ish") element in the Russian population.Well Estonians are basically Finns, and Finns are basically Swedes. So its all semantics really.
Yes, it's weird because I can hardly follow this that it makes sense, I don't think Swedish Princes fought in the Kievan Rus. To the best of my knowledge no, the only Princes who fought in the Kievan Rus to my where the Russian Grand princes against themselves. the Kievan Rus was basically a state or confederation of them by the tail end of the Viking Age.
Yaroslav the wise asked for, and got, troops from his brother in law, Anund Jacob of Sweden, to fight against Mstislav of Chernigov in 1024.
Okay, I still don't see that expanding into somehow Sweden conquers the whole Kievan Rus, and it's a part of Sweden.