… they founded the first Russian state, based in Kiev, while a body of them made up the personal guard of the Byzantine emperors at Constantinople.
This leads me to think we should encourage the Scandinavian countries to unite and reclaim Kiev and argue for a sphere of influence in the Balkans. The isolation to the Putin problem has been staring us in the face all along.
The exhibition implicitly proclaims the importance of globalisation, the value of technology (in this case ships) in bringing peoples together, the power of fashion in forming identities and self-expression, the ability of consumer goods to unite people regardless of language or ethnicity, the benefits of keeping good relations with the new Russia and the need to respect Islam. It is a snapshot of the preoccupations of the intellectual British psyche in 2014.
A peculiarly parochial perspective to take toward people as cosmopolitan as the Vikings.
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