Rurik

This article is about a real person named Rurik. Prince Rurik is also a character in the computer game Guild Wars.

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Rurik or Riurik (Old East Norse R?rik, meaning "famous ruler") (ca 830 - ca 879) was a Varangian who gained control of Ladoga in 862 and built the Holmgard settlement (Rurikovo Gorodische) in Novgorod.

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Riurik is the Slavic rendering of the same Germanic name as the modern English Roderick. In old Germanic languages it had forms such as Hrodric (Old High German) and Hro?ricus (Old English). In Old Norse, Hr?rekr (Norway, Iceland) and Hr?r?kr or R?rik (Denmark, Sweden), from which Riurik is derived. The name also appears in Beowulf as Hr??r?khttp://www.sofi.se/SOFIU/lup/urnord.pdf.

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