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by kspacewalk2 1209 days ago
>They also created settlements in what is now Ukraine.

Can you name something googlable or wikipediable so I can read more about this?

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Nova Anglia. Perhaps better to say "might have created settlements". There is a tantalising number of crumbs from place names to travellers reports but little written record. The alleged location would make them the first victims of the Mongolian invasion of Europe a few hundred years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_(medieval)

Timothy Snyder has a great set of lectures about the making of modern Ukraine and he goes into great detail about the impact the Vikings had in the creation of Rus and their interactions with the Byzantines
I was about to recommend this series as well, really glad to see a fellow-traveller got there first!

Free, high-quality history content, can't recommend highly enough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz...

I believe they're referring to Nīwe Englaland/New England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_(medieval)