The article rebuts the assertion established in national historiography that the name Rurik is of the Norman origin. Based on the analysis of various written sources, including the Euro-pean epic in the Early Middle Ages, it is concluded that the name of Rorik/Rurik was first rec-orded from the Gallo-Roman nobility at the turn of the III–IV centuries. The first bearer of the Gallo-Roman name Roric among the Scandinavians was a Danish king in the mid-ninth centu-ry Rurik of Jutland. The name has remained quite rare and not typical for Scandinavians.
Keywords: Rurik, Rurik, Rorik, the Normans, the Slavs, the Goths, “the song of the Nibe-lungs”, “the Slavic chronicles.”
ОЛЕЙНИЧЕНКОCitation link: Oleinichenko A.V. On the origin of the name Rurik/Rurik/Roric // Humanities researches of the Central Russia. – 2017. – № 2 (3). – P. 57-75.
DOI: 10.24411/2541-9056-2017-00020