Nidaros-Gardarike (Kiev-Rus) policy.

It sounds reasonable that varjagar came from Varangians and thus from the Norwegian coast and Iceland. And that Nidaros functioned as a capital, with friendly relations with Kyev Rus, also through Svealand, so the Swedes were in it even though Sweden was not united into one kingdom. However, they had to have such an orderly society that the Vikings could muster on and off on the Swedish coast, as in Rotslagen, perhaps before the area got that name.

When Astrid Eiriksdottir was pregnant, she ran away from those who killed her husband. There are many quarrels as to where she escaped, but the English wickipedia takes one that is considered uncertain, that she escaped to her parents in Oppland, then escaped with her son to Sweden and through a perilous journey they came to the Kyev Rus, where they were well received. While this is not entirely reliable, we can conclude that the historic sources considered this a probable but dangerous journey. How did they manage it, how could it be arranged? With the help of the genus.

But since then, Olav Tryggvason has been considered the founder of Nidaros. Olav Haraldson tried to unify Norway with Christianity and was made king of Nidaros and received support in Eastern Norway as well, so he gathered a larger kingdom than before. But he had many against him and escaped to Sweden and then Kyev Rus. 

( https://snl.no/olav_tryggvason).

He later returned and tried to unite the kingdom again, but now he made his way over the mountain, to avoid the Danish fleet in the Øresund. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/olaf_ii_of_norway

Although he fell on Stiklestad, this had great significance for Norway.

So the Swedes helped arrange such journeys for the Varjagans, probably because they were on such journeys themselves as well.

What would it be like with a new Nidaros-Gardarike policy?

Satire:

There are now rumors of a consultation conference in Trondheim to make Nidaros the capital. First, there will be sighting at Stiklestad. Trond-Heim Giske is certainly one of the initiators.

Afterwards, there will be an Oktoberfest that will run over several days. Some will start  the Oktoberfest immediately, but fortunately those reminds us that we got the Pietism from Germany first and the Pietists started schooling  and abstinence movement to make the people sober and grow mature, independent and responsible enough to govern ourselves, so we could gain national independence.

There will be a delegation with the Nordland Line and one with the Dovre Railway. The fact that they choose the train has something to do with environmental protection, and then they demand that the trains be more precise. They bring with them a scheme to check the timetables, it is called routeization. They bring huge packed lunches and cook on the Russian-style train, where vodka is served, so there will be proper rusification (Rus meaning drunk). This is how they will continue during the conference as well, to put their stamp on it in competition with the Oktoberfest style. But shortly before they get to Trondheim it becomes wild chaos, for  some mean last stop is Stikklestad, some think it is Nidaros and others think it is the capital of Ruthenia, but they did not remember what it was called, whether it was Kiev, Novgorod, Moscow or something else.

There are convoys of fishing boats and pleasure boats from the Møre coast and further south in Western Norway and all the way from Finnmark. They sit in the livingroom and play cards and drink beer and whiskey, the whiskey they disguise as Irish coffee. And then they bring the martini, the plan is to dilute the vodka with martini, so that the party will not become vulgar, but rather enjoy life with French style. The strategy is obviously in the cards and in the drink, to put James Bond on the case, to try to find out where the healthy peasant spirit and academic sense went.

Seriously:

We have to be wary if the democracy really works properly, it has become clear in this recent past. It is the intention of  this website, as if I were an Earl Møre, so I can call myself Sivert Mørejarl. I’ll use the alias “Earl-West-Cape”, especially to use the domain earlwestcape.blod, as “ø” does not go quite well here. It will be both by writing history, all the way from Ragnvald Jarl and it will be by addressing important current affairs.

Norwegian Viking kings, such as Olav Trygvason and  Olav  Haraldson the Holy, fled to  the Kyev Rus and  returned to gather Norway into a kingdom and it was larger than the Norway that Harald Fairhair gathered.

There was friendly contact between the Nordic countries  and Kyev Rus and it was through the rulers being related. This was politically valuable and served as a loose over-national connection. The rulers of  the Kyev Rus were Vikings who adopted Christianity and it also seemed to keep people together in peace and this had great significance for the Christianization of the Nordic countries. In comparison, the Nordic Council has functioned as a loose linking of independent nations.

Nidaros had a tradition of acting as a capital of a land area without exact borders, in the middle of Scandinavia and with such loose connections all the way down to Kyev Rus. Some would even call it the capital of Scandinavia with Kyev Rus. This is surely most speculations and sure it was not like a capitol of an empire, but became important as a junction point of trade, more like Novgorod came to be later. I think it may well be possible to try to continue such a Nidaros policy, with Trondheim and Kiev as twin cities.