The Russian Primary Chronicle

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Invitation to a Viking The Russian Primary Chronicle

The interminable squabbling among the Slavic peoples around the southeast Baltic prompted their leaders to drastic action.

In 865, a large and unwelcome army of Vikings swept across the North Sea, but within sixty years Vikings and English had together established a new, united Kingdom of England. Just three years earlier, the squabbling Slavic peoples of the Baltic’s southeastern shores had actually invited the Vikings over, and within a generation the foundations of Russia had also been laid.

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