And no, the date is in the 1700s.
Russia is a huge country with vast expanses between populated centers. The situation was far worse a century ago, and two centuries ago they didn't even have roads in much of the place.
I think you are confounding Kazan with Northwestern Russia which wasn't even demarcated ~ a land of reindeer, swamps, Pomars and Sa'ami.
You wrote:
“You are going by dates of official Christianization ~ how utterly stupid.”
No, the claims your asserting just don’t make sense.
“Missionaries had been at work years ~ decades ~ even centuries before those dates.”
Not there, not then, no how.
“And no, the date is in the 1700s.”
According to whom? Please post the exact info. Are you talking about Gwyn Jones’ book or not? As soon as I mentioned that I had read the two most commonly known books of the title you put forward, you clamed up. Why is that?
“Russia is a huge country with vast expanses between populated centers. The situation was far worse a century ago, and two centuries ago they didn’t even have roads in much of the place.”
They also didn’t have Vikings there in the year 1700, bud. Now, will you actually post any evidence - ANY EVIDENCE AT ALL - for your bizarre claims or not?
“I think you are confounding Kazan with Northwestern Russia which wasn’t even demarcated ~ a land of reindeer, swamps, Pomars and Sa’ami.”
I am not “confounding” anything. I think you’re confounding imagination with reality. I am posting what is true - there were NO VIKINGS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IN 1700.
As they say, it’s time to put up or shut up.
Gee, muawiyah, where did you go?
Can you answer the following questions?
1) On what book were you basing your absurd claims?
2) Do you now acknowledge that there were on Vikings on the Volga in 1700?
3) Do you now acknowledge that you were simply repeating a garbled version - a version you garbled - of Ibn Fadlan’s Viking chief burial story from about 921?
Time to put up or shut up, muawiyah.
Day 2
Gee, muawiyah, where did you go?
Can you answer the following questions?
1) On what book were you basing your absurd claims?
2) Do you now acknowledge that there were on Vikings on the Volga in 1700?
3) Do you now acknowledge that you were simply repeating a garbled version - a version you garbled - of Ibn Fadlan’s Viking chief burial story from about 921?
Time to put up or shut up, muawiyah.