The Legend of the Ruric Dynasty

The legend goes that a group of scandinavian warriors moved across the baltic sea towards lake laudoga and set themselves up as a small but dominant force in the region. The slavs of the far north invited this gy ruric and his two brothers to come rule them in the eight sixties. Kiev was so well situated as a key point in the north south trade route along the dniper river that the heirs of ruric moved their capital there permanently a few years later. Now in the beginning, the people of kievrus were still pagan, until we get to their great conversion to christianity. Their own contribution to this global trade network was forest