Citations:Rus


 * 1915, W. Barnes Steveni, Things Seen in Sweden, London: Seeley, Service & Co., p 122:
 * This custom of taking their womenfolk on their voyages must have always been characteristic of the Swedes; for the Arabian chroniclers, who came into contact with the Rūs vikings at Itel (the modern Astrachan), in the seventh century, say that even then they were accompanied by their wives.
 * 1927 [1954], E.V. Gordon, An Introduction to Old Norse 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-811184-3, p xxii:
 * From the Swedish founders of this kingdom, which was the beginning of Russia, Russia takes its name, for the Swedes were known in the east as Rus. The population of the kingdom of the Rus was, of course, mainly Slavonic, and the Rus themselves gradually lost their Scandinavian traditions and language; they must have been almost completely merged in the Slavonic people by the beginning of the twelfth century.