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This article attempts to prove that Rorik of Dorestad and Rurik of Novograd are the same person. See below:
The only Hrörek described in Western chronicles was Rorik of Dorestad, a konung from the royal Scylding house of Haithabu. Since the 19th century, there have been attempts Frankish chroniclers mention that he received lands in Friesland from the Emperor Louis I. This was not enough for him, and he started to plunder neighbouring lands: he took Dorestad in 850, captured Haithabu in 857, and looted Bremen in 859. The Emperor was enraged and stripped him of all his possessions in 860. After that Roerik disappears from the Western sources for a considerable period of time. At that very moment, in 862, the Russian Rurik arrives in the Eastern Baltic, builds the fortress of Ladoga, and later moves to Novgorod. to identify him with the Viking prince Rurik of Russian chronicles.[4]
Roerik of Dorestad was born about 810/820 to Ali Anulo, 9th King of Haithabu.
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