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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: Yaroslav I & Ingegerda
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 02:29:04 GMT


In a previous article, tom Bodley () says:

>In article <4opn56$>, says...
>>
>>sources. Second, our Riurik of the Primary Chronicles was almost certainly
>>R/orik (Hraerekr) of Jutland.
>
>Who was this guy? Why do you think he is the same person? I'm interested
>because there is a Roric, a Viking or Northman, who appears regularly
>in Frankish sources between 850 and 873. He had died by 882.
>

Same guy. Actually, we don't know when the Roric of the Frankish annals
died, only when he ceases to appear (perhaps because he left to found a
dynasty in Russia, or so the theory goes).

Todd

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