>>212784392>This thread is about the northernmost parts of Poland>Norway doesn't even have an access to the Baltic>our comfy region>ourRügen is literally still named after the Rugii of Rogaland lmao. I'd buy your laughable deflection if it had been a handful of renamings inbetween, but it was literally never de-Rugified, only absorbed with name intact due to many of the Rugii of the mutted "Vidivarii" returning to their baltic Wielbark homeland when Rugiland was defeated.
This thread is about wether Poles are honorary Scandis.
I'm simply countering the Danish proximity simpery by saying that the part of Poland in question always was an extension of Rogaland aka NORDVEGR to begin with.
Poland literally became a country when they finally merged with the Vidivarii. The later Mieszko I is simply the first "ruler" of unified Poland similar to how Harald Fairhair was the "first" king of Norway despite Rogaland itself without the rest of Northman-norway was "the" geographical Nordvegr.
Poland absorbed the Vidivarii/Wielbark mutts and probably saw many of them leave towards the Kievan stuff anyways i order to become Poland exactly how Fairhair absorbed Rogaland with the rest of the chiefdoms to become "unified Norway".
Poland and Norway are literally sibling countries on account of gaining their "Statehood" upon merging with Rugian territories. In some sense you could say that the backmigration of the Vidivarii sparked the increased slavic connection/tension with Byzantine, to mirror the original Rugi/Goth/Vandal/Ostrogoth turmoil with the west.
You could even make the case that the Rugii refusal to move back to Norway in favor of Poland and the Kievan Rus territory directly allowed Fairhair to sack Rogaland.
Fairhair was contemporary in age with St. Helgas parents, so in an alternate timeline, St. Helga would have been the saint of Norway as opposed to the later St. Olaf. (Fairhair was his great great grandpa)