Sweatoslaves

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  • Svyatoslav: Slavic name, probably a reference to Svyatoslav I, one of the Riurikovoj princes of Kiev; the Riurik line was said to descend from the Swedish Viking Rurik → Svyatoslav I was the last Norse king of Kiev distinguishable from his Slavic subjects
  • sweat of slaves
  • svet: (Panslavonic) world