See also 1st SS Special Regiment Waräger Byzantine army Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy Christianization of Kievan Rus' Komnenian army Kylfings Oeselians Piraeus Lion (inscription made by Varangians) Rulers of Kievan Rus' References Further reading Primary sources Russian Primary Chronicle Strategikon of Kekaumenos by Kekaumenos Alexiad by Anna Komnena Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus by John Kinnamos Historia ecclesiastica by Ordericus Vitalis Chronicon universale anonymi Laudunensis Játvarðar Saga Heimskringla Laxdœla saga Additional secondary sources Buckler, Georgina. Anna Comnena: A Study. Oxford: University Press, 1929. Blondal, Sigfus. Varangians of Byzantium: An Aspect of Byzantine Military History. Trans. by Benedikt S. Benedikz, Cambridge: 1978. . Davidson, H. R. Ellis. The Viking Road to Byzantium. London: 1976. . Enoksen, Lars Magnar (1998). Runor: historia, tydning, tolkning. Historiska Media, Falun. . Jansson, Sven B. (1980). Runstenar. STF, Stockholm. . English Refugees in the Byzantine Armed Forces: The Varangian Guard and Anglo-Saxon Ethnic Consciousness by Nicholas C.J. Pappas for De Re Militari.org Raffaele D'Amato; Rava, Giuseppe (illustrator). The Varangian Guard 988–1453. "Men-at-Arms" series, Osprey, 2010. . Illustrated reconstruction of arms and armor of Varangians. Sverrir Jakobsson, The Varangians: In God’s Holy Fire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), External links History of Kievan Rus' Warfare of the Middle Ages Rus' people