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In Ancient Russia there were many people which disappeared over time, having dissolved in other ethnoses: slightly, merya, chukhon, all, etc. The mysterious tribe of kolbyag stands alone in this row as some researchers consider that it is even not the people, but the certain social group existing in the northwest of our country in the 11-12th centuries. And still them it is mentioned in several monuments to ancient writing, and a number of archeologists believe that kolbyag created priladozhsky kurganny culture.
the Origin of the kolbyag living in the north of Russia causes heated arguments. Some scientists consider that these people resulted from mixture and assimilation of various Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian tribes, others rank kolbyag as slav brothers. There are also original versions about their Turkic or Lithuanian origin.
Archeologists think that the city of Alaborg about which it is told in the Scandinavian sagas about Hrolva Peshekhoda and Halvdana Eysteynsson was the central settlement of kolbyag. He settled down, according to scientists, on the river bank Syas near the village the Ancient settlement. Existence of Alaborga is dated for 750-920 years. Possibly, then kolbyag moved to the area of inflows of Vikhmesi and Syaznegi.
The famous Russian historian Vasily Tatishchev (1686-1750) who considered them residents of Kolobrzeg - one of the Pomor cities was one of the most prominent supporters of Slavic origin of kolbyag. Some experts recognize kolbyag which Scandinavians called people with cudgels and stakes, social group of Slavs of the Russian North. They could be such representatives of local outlaws, similar to Cossacks. The free people who were not recognizing the power of neither official Novgorod, nor capital Kiev and living on the coast of Ladoga together with Finno-Ugric tribes. They quite could make attacks on neighbors therefore in the saga about Egile Skallagrimsson kolbyag act as enemies, prostrate as the valorous Viking. And to register in army of Byzantium as mercenaries to receive money for military skill - than not earnings for free people of the Russian North?