There is archeological evidence of Viking jewelry along these routes. There's evidence of artifacts from these far off lands in Viking territory. And we believe what the Varangians traded were furs that they hunted in this area of Northern Europe. Now the people who lived in this area were known as the Slavs. And there were several broad groups of Slavs that you will hear historians refer to. You have the Western Slavs, who you could view as some of the ancestors of modern Poles, Czechs, and Slovaks. You have the Southern Slavs, in what would eventually be referred to as the Balkans.