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  1. I published a whole bunch of pages about varangian runestones I’ve visited on the Varangian Biker site. Each page includes photos, a trace of the inscription and a translation. A few of them also have descriptions. I have visited more of them, but I haven’t had time to create pages for them yet.

    varangianbiker.com/varangian-r

    #Runestones #Viking #OldNorse #History #Futhark #Runes #Varangians

  2. Greek sculpture in Venice with a Swedish runic inscription.

    Globalisation is nothing new.

    #venice #venezia #piraeus #Varangians

  3. @Renegade_GDI
    3/4

    That present-day #Ukraine is part of #Europe, historically and culturally, is an indisputable fact, though a slightly different case could be made about #Crimea* and its genesis regarding the #Mongolian #GoldenHorde* (see my other thread, though that came only shortly after the #Varangians.)

    *mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1102

    If you believe the founding history alternative that the #Crimean #Tartars...

    @EU_ISS

  4. @Renegade_GDI
    3/4

    That present-day #Ukraine is part of #Europe, historically and culturally, is an indisputable fact, though a slightly different case could be made about #Crimea* and its genesis regarding the #Mongolian #GoldenHorde* (see my other thread, though that came only shortly after the #Varangians.)

    *mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1102

    If you believe the founding history alternative that the #Crimean #Tartars...

    @EU_ISS

  5. @Renegade_GDI
    3/4

    That present-day #Ukraine is part of #Europe, historically and culturally, is an indisputable fact, though a slightly different case could be made about #Crimea* and its genesis regarding the #Mongolian #GoldenHorde* (see my other thread, though that came only shortly after the #Varangians.)

    *mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1102

    If you believe the founding history alternative that the #Crimean #Tartars...

    @EU_ISS

  6. @Renegade_GDI
    3/4

    That present-day #Ukraine is part of #Europe, historically and culturally, is an indisputable fact, though a slightly different case could be made about #Crimea* and its genesis regarding the #Mongolian #GoldenHorde* (see my other thread, though that came only shortly after the #Varangians.)

    *mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1102

    If you believe the founding history alternative that the #Crimean #Tartars...

    @EU_ISS

  7. @Renegade_GDI
    3/4

    That present-day #Ukraine is part of #Europe, historically and culturally, is an indisputable fact, though a slightly different case could be made about #Crimea* and its genesis regarding the #Mongolian #GoldenHorde* (see my other thread, though that came only shortly after the #Varangians.)

    *mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1102

    If you believe the founding history alternative that the #Crimean #Tartars...

    @EU_ISS

  8. I need to do some digital archaeology to dig up my old web page about the Frösö runestone and add it to the Varangian Biker site.

    VarangianBiker.com

    #runestones #vikings #varangians