You made one little mistake here; the Finnish word "Ruotsi" means actually "Sweden" the word for Swede is "ruotsalainen".
However I have read somewhere that both of the words "Ruotsi" and "Rus" have something with the swedish place "Roslagen" to do, is this a possibility?
thomas
Plastikdol@... wrote:
I think they actually were Vikings, not just descendants.   I remember hearing somewhere that the word "Rus" was from the Finnish "Ruotsi", their term for Swedes.

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