Varangian

[vә'rændʒiәn]

Definition

(n.) One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople.

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Definition

n. the name given by the Slavic Russians and the Greeks to one of those Northmen or Vé‹œings who made settlements on the east side of the Baltic in the second half of the 9th century and laid the foundations under Rurik of the kingdom of Gardarike out of which grew the subsequent Russia.—Varangian Guard a trusted bodyguard of the emperors of Constantinople from the end of the 10th century down to the close in 1453.

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