![]() Įngaging in trade, piracy, and mercenary service, Varangians roamed the river systems and portages of Gardariki, as the areas north of the Black Sea were known in the Norse sagas. Rurik's relative Oleg conquered Kiev in 882 and established the state of Kievan Rus', which was later ruled by Rurik's descendants. Before Rurik, the Rus' might have ruled an earlier hypothetical polity known as the Rus' Khaganate. ![]() Īccording to the 12th-century Primary Chronicle, a group of Varangians known as the Rus' settled in Novgorod in 862 under the leadership of Rurik. They also formed the Byzantine Varangian Guard, which later also included Anglo-Saxons. The Varangians settled in the territories of present-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine from the 8th and 9th centuries, and established the state of Kievan Rus' as well as the principalities of Polotsk and Turov. The Varangians ( / v ə ˈ r æ n dʒ i ə n z/ Old Norse: Væringjar Medieval Greek: Βάραγγοι, Várangoi Old East Slavic: варяже, varyazhe or варязи, varyazi) were Viking conquerors, traders and settlers, mostly from present-day Sweden.
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