Where the hell did you get this BS? For a while all tested memebers of Rurik clan have only clades typical for Eastern Europe and Southern Baltic. Y-dna clades typical for Scandinavia are very very scarce in Russia and other Eastern European countries and in opposite we have a lot of Y-dna haplos typical for Eastern Europe in Scandinavia.
Here are a few excerpts from a Wikipedia entry about the origins of Russia. Yah, I know, Wikipedia. But it matches what I've read in actual history books.
The
Rus' (
Slavic: Русь;
Greek: Ῥῶς) — ancient people who gave their name to the lands of Russia and Belarus. Their origin and identity are much in dispute. Russian scholars, along with some Westerners, consider the Rus to be a southeastern Slavic tribe that founded a tribal league - the Kievan state.
Ibn Khordadbeh, a Persian geographer of the 9th century also believed the Rus people are Slavic. Traditional Western scholars believe them to be a group of
Varangians — diverse groups of
Norsemen.
[1][2][3][4] According to the
Primary Chronicle of
Rus', compiled in about 1113 AD, the Rus' had relocated "from over sea", first to northeastern Europe, creating an
early polity that finally came under the leadership of
Rurik. Later, Rurik's relative
Oleg captured
Kiev, founding
Kievan Rus'.
[5][6] The descendants of Rurik were the ruling
dynasty of
Rus' (after 862), and of principalities created in the area formerly occupied by Kievan Rus',
Galicia-Volhynia (after 1199),
Chernigov,
Vladimir-Suzdal,
Grand Duchy of Moscow, and the founders of the
Tsardom of Russia.
[7]
According to the most prevalent theory, the name
Rus', like the Finnish name for
Sweden (
Ruotsi), is derived from an
Old Norse term for "the men who row" (
rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of
Roslagen (
Rus-law) or
Roden, as it was known in earlier times.
[1][8][9] The name
Rus' would then have the same origin as the
Finnish and
Estonian names for Sweden:
Ruotsi and
Rootsi.
[1]
Having settled
Aldeigja (Ladoga) in the 750s, Scandinavian colonists played an important role in the early ethnogenesis of the Rus' people and in the formation of the
Rus' Khaganate. The Varangians (
Varyags, in
Old East Slavic) are first mentioned by the
Primary Chronicle as having exacted tribute from the
Slavic and
Finnic tribes in 859. It was the time of rapid expansion of the Vikings in Northern Europe; England began to pay
Danegeld in 859, and the
Curonians of
Grobin faced an invasion by the Swedes at about the same date.
Due largely to geographic considerations, it is often argued that most of the Varangians who traveled and settled in the eastern Baltic, Russia and lands to the south came from the area of modern
Sweden .
[16]
The Varangians left a number of
rune stones in their native
Sweden that tell of their journeys to what is today Russia, Ukraine, Greece, and Belarus. Most of these rune stones can be seen today, and are a telling piece of historical evidence. The
Varangian runestones tell of many notable Varangian expeditions, and even account for the fates of individual warriors and travelers.
The
Vikings allegedly had some enduring influence in Rus, as testified by loan words
(these ones persist from Glagolitic script at Adriatic prior and out
of any Vikings), such as
yabeda "complaining person" (from
æmbætti,
embætti "office"),
skot [17] "cattle" (? from
skattr "tax") and
knout (from
knútr, "a knotty wood").
[citation needed] Moreover three Nordic names of the first Varangian rulers also became popular among the later Rurikids and then among the East Slavic people in general:
Oleg (Helgi),
Olga (Helga) and
Igor (Ingvar).
