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varego
A member of the ethnically Scandinavian people around the borders of Constantinople in the ninth and tenth centuries.
varego
A member of the imperial body guard at Constantinople from 955.
The Byzantines continued to recruit elite warriors from the north, not merely from Rus’ but directly from far-off Scandinavia; from the end of the tenth century, they referred to t…
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