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The vikings didn't wear helmets with horns on them.

This isn't all that recent as I learned it about a year ago but Swedish Vikings probably founded the trading settlement which became the first Russian Principality: Kiev.

And that whole trading arc from Sweden down to Constantinople resulted in many Vikings, and even Anglo Saxons, fighting as mercenaries in the Byzantine army!
 
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