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Originally Posted by onwebcam
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my understanding is Moscow was founded by a
Viking tribe or northern tribe,
The Rus' (Slavic: Русь; Greek: Ῥῶς) were an early medieval group, who lived in modern Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and other countries, and are the ancestors of modern Russians and other Eastern European ethnicities. The Rus came from what is today Roslagen of modern day Sweden. According to both contemporary Byzantine and Islamic sources and the Primary Chronicle of Rus', compiled in about A.D 1113, the Rus were Norsemen who had relocated "from over sea", first to northeastern Europe, creating an early polity that finally came under the leadership of Rurik.[1][
the slaves were already there I guess and maybe this helps explains something I've always thought was weird about the Magyar
The group of Finno-Ugric languages also includes Finnish, Estonian, Lappic (Sámi) and some other languages spoken in the Russian Federation.
Out of these it is Khanty and Mansi that are the most closely related to Hungarian. The Hungarian name for the language is magyar.