Vikings and the Rus in the south of Caspian sea

This is a bowl with the design of a ship and Kufic inscription from the early 10th century which has been found in Neyshabur in northeastern Iran:

There are some other similar bowls from this region and this period, however Neyshabur is far from the sea, anyway I think they can be related to "Caspian expeditions of the Rus":

Edited by Cyrus Shahmiri - 27-Mar-2011 at 10:59

Do you know the princess Roxana, the Bactrian wife of Alexander? And do you know about Roxolani (Rox Alani) people? You can read here about etymologies of the name Rus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus_(name) as you read there are Normanist and Anti-Normanist theories on the origins of Rus, and it seems Russians themselves believe in an Iranian/Alani origin.

as far as i know the vikings were the nobility of the russians. i think  the term varangian is used. the russian slavic state in the moscow area emerged in an area already settled by finns...hence the mari and estonians etc etc.
germanic intrusion occurred by way of the baltic sea...the swedes were to rule finns proper and pomerania. the germans proper came much later into prussia and latvia.

regarding a rus invasion of persia... i guess it makes sense thoughis there documented proof. i am not sure of the time frame but i am pretty certain that the khazars would be controlling the southern gateway to arab lands, persia etc.
i do know that the arabs did trade with the Rus.
the scythian, sogdian, sarmatian , alani, ossette saga remains an enigma to me. what is definite is that the alani = the ossettes. some of their people did end up in north africa and i think hungary.

Lol, I remember that from the movie, the 13th warrior. But they were probably cleaner than we think. Another Muslim traveler, Ibn Rustah, who travelled to the lands of the Rus, had a better opinion of them:

Russians say that "Rus" origin is female noun with meaning "blond"!Accidental their new rocket carrier
program was called "Rus-M",there i found this data.