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NAME ''Riurik'' is the Slavic rendering of the same Germanic name as the modern English ''Roderick'', or Spanish and Portuguese ''Rodrigo''. In old Germanic Languages it had forms such as ''Hrodric'' ( Old High German ) and ''Hroðricus'' ( Old English ). In Old Norse , ''Hrœrekr'' ( Norway , Iceland ) and ''Hrørīkr'' or ''Rørik'' ( Denmark , Sweden ), from which ''Riurik'' is derived. The name also appears in '' Beowulf '' as ''Hrēðrīk'' {Link without Title} . HISTORY There is a debate over how Rurik came to control Ladoga and Novgorod. The only information about him is contained in the 12th-century Russian Primary Chronicle , which states that Chud s, Slavs , Merias , Veses and Krivichs ''"…drove the Varangians back beyond the sea, refused to pay them tribute, and set out to govern themselves''". Afterwards the tribes started fighting each other and decided to invite Rurik to reestablish order. Rurik remained in power until his death in 879 . His successors (the Rurik Dynasty ), however, moved the capital to Kiev and founded the state of Kievan Rus , which persisted until 1240 , the time of Mongol Invasion . A number of extant princely families are patrilineally descended from Rurik, although the last Rurikid to rule Russia, Vasily IV , died in 1612 . |
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