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This photo taken from Bathonea excavation website shows archaeologists working near Lake Kucukcekmece. (Photo: bathonea.org)

This photo taken from Bathonea excavation website shows archaeologists working near Lake Kucukcekmece. (Photo: bathonea.org)

1 posted on 12/08/2015 2:32:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Traces of Vikings found at Bathonea archaeological excavation in Istanbul

Don't make them mad..they were pretty good..


2 posted on 12/08/2015 2:34:57 PM PST by BerniesFriend (I am BerniesFriend, however it's really Bernadette, NOT Bernie Sanders friend!!!!!!!)
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Avast just gave me a blocked virus threat when I clicked this story


5 posted on 12/08/2015 2:37:28 PM PST by butlerweave
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Varangian Guard!


10 posted on 12/08/2015 2:54:37 PM PST by Sawdring
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I thought that the ancient amber routes from the Baltic to Constantinople had been resolved mid- 20th century.

Author Dr. Arnold Spekke

1957, The ancient amber routes and geographical discovery of the Eastern Baltic

1961, The Baltic Sea in ancient maps

1962, Some problems of Baltic-Slavic relations in prehistoric and early historical times

11 posted on 12/08/2015 2:56:22 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who passing refuse the. news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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The Byzantine Varangian Guard was the Emperor’s personal bodyguard made up of Scandinavians from Russia. They copied the idea from the Roman emperors who used Germans as personal bodyguards. Not only were they large and intimidating, but they could be trusted since as foreigners they couldn’t kill the emperor and take power themselves. After the Battle of Haystings in 1066 a number of King Harold’s elite Saxon “hearth warriors” made their way to Constantinople and made up a significant portion of the guard.


12 posted on 12/08/2015 3:01:36 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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There are viking runes carved at the Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia.

Two runic inscriptions are found in the Byzantine church of Hagia Sophia. They are believed to be carved by Vikings in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) during the 9th century AD, long before the Varangian Guard – an elite Viking unit of the Byzantine Army – was first formed under Emperor Basil II in 988 AD. Who were the Vikings leaving evidence of their visit?

http://thornews.com/2014/06/26/viking-graffiti-in-hagia-sophia-halvdan-carved-these-runes/

13 posted on 12/08/2015 3:17:12 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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The Saga of Burnt Njal relates that one of the characters, a Viking, who at the end of all the conflicts—they start small and end large—left Iceland and Ireland and travelled to Byzantium to be part of the Emperors Guard.

Its an excellent story. Starts with a conflict begun by two women, the Germanic demand for vengeance, how their husbands attempt to prevent the fight it from spreading, how it begins to involve neighbors and Icelandic families and communities, finally extending itself overseas to the battle of Clontarf. How the cycle of volence created by the demands of Pagan Nordic law finally are resolved after the introduction of Christianity to Iceland.


15 posted on 12/08/2015 7:02:02 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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Vikings = Peoples of the sea = Greeks. Felice Vinci “The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales”


19 posted on 12/09/2015 10:22:11 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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Like other posters I didn’t think there was any question about the existence of the Varangian Guards.


20 posted on 12/09/2015 3:22:04 PM PST by colorado tanker
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Must be a government sponsored dig.
I count 11 people in the picture and only 3 look to be working.
21 posted on 12/10/2015 9:44:28 PM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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