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Mention is made of the Vaegirs of the Mount and Blade in-game world being modelled after Varangians. This does not seem to ring true, to be honest. The Nords are the faction most like vikings and similar, Vaegirs are far more like Eastern Europeans; Slav/Rus like. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.44.129.234 (talk) 09:57, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
That said, there is no official stance on what culture each faction is based off. Most seem to be fictional mixtures of combined real world cultures. Claiming one faction in-game is derived entirely and solely from a single faction in the real world is bound to be inaccurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.44.129.234 (talk) 10:06, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
And as stated in the first paragraph, Varangians ventured into eastern Europe, and as stated in the first sentence in the second paragraph one group of varangians became the Rus' people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.230.179.4 (talk) 23:06, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I see that there is a quotation for Anglo Saxons being in Varangian guard. I find the reasoning in the article not compelling. How does one determine the ethnicity of refuges from England after the Norman conquest? At one time the author speaks of Anglo Saxon, than about Anglo Saxon and Danes and also of English. He talks also about the unreliability of his sources. The trade net through this person must have been traveling, must either have been the Varagian or Viking, so there would be the possibility it being only Danes, but the two groups were intermingled by than. I would still associate the two handed great ax, also famous with Varangian guard, rather with a Dane than an Anglo Saxon. Either the quote should change to Anglo Saxons and Danes or English. Jochum (talk) 02:44, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The book by D'amato doesn't appear to ratify the claims of a treaty in 874 and appears to be made off guess work to my best estimate. I can find no other references to this alleged 874 treaty aside from this, no secondary records except this one appear to exist. Logland Belaraus (talk) 11:40, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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