Lyubech
Malk of Lyubech
The Russian Primary Chronicle - Laurentian Text
p87 (trans. Samuel Hazzard Cross, 1953)
For Vladimir
was son of Malusha, stewardess of Olga and sister of Dobrÿnya. Their
father was Malk of Lyubech and Dobrÿnya was thus Vladimir’s uncle. The
citizens of Novgorod thus requested Svyatoslav to designate Vladimir to
be their prince, and he went forth to Novgorod with Dobrÿnya, his uncle.
Malusha
Malk of Lyubech
Svyatoslav
Stewardess to Olga.
The description of her as Olga's klyuchnitsa could also be
translated as the keeper of her keys
The Russian Primary Chronicle - Laurentian Text
p87 (trans. Samuel Hazzard Cross, 1953)
6478
(970). Svyatoslav set up Yaropolk in Kiev and Oleg in Dereva. At this
time came the people of Novgorod asking for themselves a prince. “If you
will not come to us,” said they, “then we will choose a prince of our
own.” Svyatoslav replied that they had need of a prince, but Yaropolk
and Oleg both refused, so that Dobrÿnya suggested that the post should
be offered to Vladimir. For Vladimir was son of Malusha, stewardess of
Olga and sister of Dobrÿnya. Their father was Malk of Lyubech and
Dobrÿnya was thus Vladimir’s uncle. The citizens of Novgorod thus
requested Svyatoslav to designate Vladimir to be their prince, and he
went forth to Novgorod with Dobrÿnya, his uncle.
p124
6506-6508 (998-1000). Malfrid died.114 In this year died also
Rogned, Yaroslav’s mother.
p251
114. As
stated by the Chronicle under 970, Vladimir was the son of Malusha,
sister of Dobrÿnya (a distinguished boyar) and stewardess of the
princess Olga. While Vladimir was characterized as a “slave’s son” by
Rogned in 975, this epithet is not to be taken seriously in view of
Dobrÿnya’s influential position. Stender-Petersen, Die Varägersage,
p. 15, thus identifies Malmfrid with Malusha, supposing Vladimir to have
been of pure Scandinavian ancestry.
possibly between 998 and 1000, if the
identification of the death of "Malfrid", recorded then in the Russian
Primary Chronicle, is correctly that of Malusha.
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