Most of the world agrees that he was swedish

most of the world agrees that he was swedish,
and finns claim he was finnish.

but what do russians and ukrainians think? what's their take on rurik and the rus?

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their take is that his name was Rurică and he was from the moldova region

his name was actually روريك and was born in western arabia

his real name was Ruristein and he was a (((khazar))), naturally

>but what do russians and ukrainians think?

Rurik was a Scandi man from Roslagen region near Uppland.

> finns claim he was finnish.
they do?

Zig Forums meme

He did have a N haplo, but it's controversial, does that qualify he was a Finn

I say no, Even If his great great grandpa was

there once was a very dedicated finn on /his/ who would make very long, very dedicated posts speaking of finnish kings, swedish propaganda and about how rurik was a finn
does that count?

>but what do russians and ukrainians think?
Was he even real?

this guy?

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There's a niche internet culture for that. Probably the truth, you know.

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No actually most of the world doesn’t know who he is and doesn’t give a shit. All of you snowniggers are irrelevant

Russians and Ukrainians do, as OP asked

sounds based

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Khokhols pretty much deny Normanist theory. Ironically, they force the soviet idea, that the Rus' tribe was actually Slavic and originated in Central Ukraine. It's completely politicized ahistorical bullshit, aiming to somehow separate Russia from the Rus' history.
There are a lot of Russian retards who drank the slavophilic koolaid, too.
Me personally, from all the info gathered. I think he was definitely a Scandinavian culturally and linguistically. But given that Rurikids have N haplo, he must have had Finnish ancestors. And the area of Sweden the Rus' came from, it still has noticible N haplo presence. Maybe it was originally Finno-Ugric like far north Sami regions, but assimilates by Normans.
And it really doesn't matter. The Rus' state was formed as a mix of Varangian Russes, Slavic and Finno-Ugric. With earliest Rus' cities being Finno-Ugric Beloozero, Rostov and Murom. It all stayed clearly in the chronnicles.

He was a Norwegian

Finns had proven extensive "bride buying" relations with Balts and Germanics so it doesn't seem that unreasonable that Rurik could have had some long ago ancestor that was Finnic, but he himself was most likely Swedish in all aspects.

He was a Slavic actually. Had South Slav DNA.
I don't think anyone cares though.

Well, there's not much sources about him other than The Primary Chronnicle. But genetic studies on Rurikids show a common male ancestor with haploroup correlating to the one you can find in Roslagen, Swedish region.

He was originally from Norway

No, he didn't. Why do you lie?

He was a son of Obodrite (slav from nothern germany) and Novgorod princess Umila.

this is some prime cro magnon material

Might be, don't see why I it would be a bad thing (for us swedes) if it was

There's another guy on /his/ who used to heavily push this theory as well

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>these nails

What is it about the iron age Baltic that brings out the autism in people?

I remember him saying Odin carried N1c-L550 haplogroup and that Rurik was spawned from that

haplogroups
and few written documents, you can make up anything you want with what we got

Well, Rus' definitely encountered Finnics first before penetrating deeper in what is now Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. After all Finland and Estonia still call Sweden "Ruotsi". And since Rus' was more of an occupation, it literally means oarsmen. They probably recruited Finnics, too. Or most probably just snatched them. Because Slavs were among Varangians when encountered by Greeks later. And Varangians were known for raiding Slavs.

Beardguy was bullied here I wonder how true his theories are
Too bad he died from a mushroom overdose