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The story goes that in the year 860 the chuds, the slavs, the krivitians and the VES, people

who live in what we now know as Russia had fallen out among themselves needed somebody

to rule them.

So they turned to the Vikings.

Our land is great and rich, they supposedly said, but there is no order in it, come to

rule and reign over us.

And the person who accepted that offer was a man called Rurik, one of three brothers,

Rurik, Sineus and Truvor, very close to Trevor, weirdly.

You couldn't take a Viking sheathed.

So it's never Trevor.

Rurik established himself in a place which we now know as Novgorod and his successors later

moved to Kiev and it's from that story that their countries of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

all trace their history.

Tom.

Did the origins of the Vikings in the East yesterday, do you think there's any truth to this

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