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Early Swedish Kingdoms (1740 words) |
 | Proofs of extensive Scandinavian settlement in Russia are to be found partly in the Russian names assigned to the Dnieper[?] rapids by Constantine Porphyrogenitus, partly in references to this people made by foreign representatives at the court of Byzantium. |
| The fact that many of the names which occur in Russian chronicles seem to be peculiarly Swedish suggests that Sweden was the home of the settlers, and the best authorities consider that the original Scandinavian conquerors were Swedes who had settled on the east coast of the Baltic. |
| Anund Jacob of Sweden[?], now sole king, early in his reign allied himself with Olaf II of Norway against Canute II of Denmark[?], who had demanded the restitution of the rights possessed by his father King Anund, Sweyn in Norway. |
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