Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Volga Vikings.
An elite military unit of Scandinavian, and later Anglo-Saxon, mercenaries who served as the highly paid personal bodyguards to the Byzantine Emperor.
Varangian Guard appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for Viking Expansion (c.750–c.1050), especially Volga Vikings and Relations with Constantinople.
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The First Crusade (c.1070–1100)
Origins c.1070–1095 • Byzantine Empire
