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Medieval stories from Europe’s eastern frontier

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Varangian Chronicler

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2 months ago

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The centralization of Norse states is an understated factor in the end of the “Viking Era.” With more opportunity to grow in wealth & power at home, powerful Jarls & petty kings consumed Scandinavia in war and exhausted the region with bloody wars trying to expand their power.

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Tristan S. Rapp

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2 months ago

Varangian Chronicler Yes, there is a substantial degree to which the Scandinavians succumbed to a sort of "suffering from success" scenario, in which they paradoxically somewhat faded from a reality as a result of... winning, sort of.

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