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Posts in The Copybook for ‘The Feast of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary’
In The Copybook
Posts in The Copybook for ‘The Feast of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary’
In The Copybook
Shortly after Askold and Dir founded Kiev in 862, they launched a brazen but ill-fated assault on the capital of the Roman Empire.
In the 860s, just as the Great Army led by Vikings Ingwaer and Halfdan was swarming over England, Viking warlords Askold and Dir were establishing the great cities of Novgorod and Kiev as the foundations of Rus’. Almost at once the pagan settlers set their sights on the greatest prize of all, Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire.