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The Rus', also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Sea from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD.
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rus' norse slavic names old century name also novgorod kievan two scandinavian swedish east people europe eastern sweden varangians sources
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | instance of | so the pronunciation difference between rōþer and róðr is minute.The name Rusʹ remains not only in names | 0.80 | text |
| Belarus | instance of | so the pronunciation difference between rōþer and róðr is minute.The name Rusʹ remains not only in names | 0.80 | text |
| but it is also preserved in many place names in the Novgorod | instance of | so the pronunciation difference between rōþer and róðr is minute.The name Rusʹ remains not only in names | 0.80 | text |
| Pskov districts | instance of | so the pronunciation difference between rōþer and róðr is minute.The name Rusʹ remains not only in names | 0.80 | text |
| and it is the origin of the Greek Rōs | instance of | so the pronunciation difference between rōþer and róðr is minute.The name Rusʹ remains not only in names | 0.80 | text |
| róþs-menn | instance of | an origin in word compounds | 0.80 | text |
| róþs-karlar is considered the most likely one | instance of | an origin in word compounds | 0.80 | text |
| derivation from Rusa | instance of | Other theories | 0.80 | text |
| a name for the Volga | instance of | Other theories | 0.80 | text |
| are rejected or ignored by mainstream scholarship | instance of | Other theories | 0.80 | text |
| The Tale of Igor's Campaign | instance of | and on literary works | 0.80 | text |
| and even on the Byliny | instance of | and on literary works | 0.80 | text |
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