What is a Variag

[Lalaith]

meatheads are the names of the guards in the tower of london

Rofl. They are actually called Beefeaters, but I will think of them as meatheads from now on.
As somebody mentioned, the Russians and Slavs knew the Vikings as vaeringjar or Varangs, and the Varangian Guard were the handpicked (Viking) bodyguard of the Byzantine emperor. However, the people of Khand would I think have been the ME equivalent of Asians.