Exercise 2. Answer the following questions. 1. What did the Polianians have according to the Primary
Chronicle?
2. Where did the new Varangian sphere of influence spread?

3. Whom Askol’d and Dir were able to defeat?

4. What did the Primary Chronicle distinguish?

5. Who did the rise of Kievan Rus’ had begun?

6. Who continued to unite the other East Slavic tribes?

7. What is necessary in order to reconstruct the historical

record from the sketchy and at times the contradictory

information of the Primary Chronicle?

8. What did Helgi/Oleh declare?

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