Varangian

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Varangian \Va*ran"gi*an\, n.
     One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the
     9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later
     date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople.
     [1913 Webster]