--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Lindblom
<thomas_lindblom@...> wrote:

> 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.

> 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?

<Ruotsi> may well be a descendant of Roslagen < Rodslagen,
whereas can not be regarded as the prototype for <rus'>.

Eugene