Ruś wikingów. Skandynawowie we wczesnośredniowiecznej Europie Wschodniej
Viking Rus. Scandinavians in early medieval Eastern Europe

Author(s): Władysław Duczko
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, 6th to 12th Centuries, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Vikings; Viking Rus; Viking Age; Scandinavians in Eastern Europe; archaeology of Vikings
Summary/Abstract: A new, supplemented and corrected Polish translation of the classic publication "The Viking Rus". The author talks about the beginnings of statehood in Eastern Europe and about the role Scandinavians played in it. He presents and discusses in detail rich archaeological material from research in the East, comparing it with finds from Scandinavia, which proves that in the Viking Age, large communities of Scandinavians settled in the areas of today's Russia and Ukraine. They kept their identity by maintaining contacts with their country of origin. These people, called the Rus, created the first state structures in the East, including the foundations of Kievan Rus.

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