Varangians...

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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Varangian: Norse Influences Within the Elite Guard of Byzantium - Medievalists.net

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Constantinople maintained hundreds of years of dutiful employment of what has been often referred to by scholars as a mercenary force. The