 Some scholars conclude that the Rus' people lived in northern Russia, but that their ancestral homeland was in Sweden.Scholars have also sought to establish a connection between the Rus'-Byzantine embassy to Louis the Pious and contemporary events in the Eastern Empire, as recorded in the "Life of St. George of Amastris", one of the earliest Greek sources on the Rus'.The narrative came to an end in 882 when an elderly, frail Hincmar was forced to flee his cathedral at Reims from approaching Viking invaders.