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The fact that the Byzantines basically forgot they ruled Sardinia will always be funny to me.
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Varangian Chronicler
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Varangian Chronicler
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Medieval stories from Europe’s eastern frontier
Miklagard Katılım Ekim 2021
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@dyingempires Varangopoulos, unfortunately we don’t have many sources from the time period. I have always wondered if some are tucked away on Athos or another monastery that we could glean some information from.
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@Varangian_Tagma Do you mean English-sounding ones, or names like Varangopoulos?
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Or perhaps not. In 1404, Adam of Usk talked with an imperial delegation in Rome:
'From these Greeks I learned... that such men of British race, in token of their blood and lordship, bear axes in their country, which others do not.'
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The Sack of Constantinople, the fall of the City, was also the end of the Anglo-Saxon Varangians. Some probably survived in Nicaea or Epirus. Yet, while the Guard endured, the brave Englishmen faded from the record. /12
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