Rurik the Rus

Posted By: Forrest (cache3.avtel.net)
Date: 11/20/1999 at 3:15 p.m.

Hey all,

Just reading a history book here, and I came across the origin of the name "Rurik". No, not Rurik the Dumb or Rurik the Daft or even Rurik the Elder, Rurik the Rus (Rus was what the Slavs called the Vikings and their lands). Rurik was a military leader in the A.D. 860s, whos successors later came to rule Novgorod and Kiev and other Russian principalities.

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• Rurik the Rus
  Forrest (cache3.avtel.net) -- 11/20/1999 at 3:15 p.m.
  • Re: Rurik the Rus
    The Crimson King (inktomi2.algonet.se) -- 11/20/1999 at 7:06 p.m.
    • Re: Rurik the Rus
      Forrest (cache3.avtel.net) -- 11/20/1999 at 9:40 p.m.
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        The Crimson King (inktomi2.algonet.se) -- 11/21/1999 at 8:54 a.m.
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          Forrest (cache3.avtel.net) -- 11/21/1999 at 1:41 p.m.

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