Episode 4 - A thunderbolt from Heaven

This time we start off with an outline of the Byzantine empire and a look at what was going on down there around the time, or just prior to, the foundation of NovgorodAnd then we’ll take a look at the ‘discovery’ of a new Rus base and then finally we’ll check out what was going on in Novgorod and what Rurik was up to (and spoiler alert - it’s not a lot but there is one notable event).   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.