Ok, more off topic - Russian is a Slavic language. Nordic does not
refer to a language, rather a group of nothern european countries -
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland (as well as a discipline
of skiing). Norwegian, Swedish, Danish (Icelandic) like English are
Germanic languages. Finnish is something completely different.
I think Rus is thought to be what the Slavic inhabitants of the regions
now known as Russia and the Ukraine called the Swedish Vikings that
conquered them a 1000 years ago. Also, some argue that Rus comes from
Ros which is a region in Sweden.
Jim
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