Re: Language - Area - Routes

--- In cybalist@..., S.Tarasovas@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> > Rex,
> >
> The Kievan rulers at that time were Slavicised descendants of a
> former Scandinavian elite, converted to Orthodox Christianity.
> >
> > Piotr
>
> I would prefer to more prudently call representatives of the RusI
> ethnos 'Germanic' rather than 'Scandinavian'. The sources we have
> point, more or less consistently, to the South Baltic cost as their
> probable Urheimat. Varingian (Scandinavian) influence were strong

as

> well, even some confrontation between RusI and Vare,zi is sometimes
> supposed, but the rulers were of RusI, not Varangian origin.
>
> Sergei

What do you make of the names of the early Rus rulers (he said with
his nose in mr. Galster's book): Rurik, Oleg and Igor, supposedly
Rørek, Helge and Iver (which he even call Scylding, thus Danish
names)?

Torsten