Ukraine, Europe's enigmatic frontier

[Jarl]

Indeed, all northern peoples of Europe had slaves taken from among their respective populations.

The Norse Varangyar often took slaves from Slavic populations and traded them through out the eastern and Mediterranean world according to Ibn Rustah.

That was about 300-500 years, after the Byzantine term "Sclavus" found its way into medieval Europe's terminology. Polabian Lechites - the Obodriti and the Veleti took copious numbers of slaves from among the Saxons during their raids against their Germanic neighbours. So did the Polish Lechites led by king of Poland, Boleslaw Chrobry, on their raids into Lausitz and Meissen Marks.

[The Khagan]

I wasn't trying to say that the slave raiding wasn't reciprocal?

[Jarl]

I wasn't trying to say that the slave raiding wasn't reciprocal?

Slave trade was reciprocal but the spread of culture/civilisation was not. And that is why it were the Romans who passed the "barbarian slave" image into literature.

[Monolith]

Wendisch/Windisch was also applied in the south to the Slovenes...

There's a cave named Vindija in Northern Croatia. Neanderthals used to live there.