
6: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The Making of Modern Ukraine
What's the Succession Principle?
In early Rus, there was a big problem with succession. If you counted the way we're counting it from one ruler to another single ruler from the Laudemir Tiyatoslav, it took 21 years. This brings us to Yaroslav and what is regarded as the Golden Age of Kievenruz,. His rule, which is the 1020s, 1030s, 1040s, he rules by himself from 1036, until his death in 1054. So Yaroslav is also a Scandinavian prince. He's in the saga of Harold Haarada, who is the king of Norway. And he marries off one of his daughters to that same king of
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