Originally Posted by f100supersabr";p=&quot

Rus is the area around what is now Kiyiv ( bastarized into Kiev by the Russians). The ancient land aroound Kiyiv was called the Kyivska-Rus which in modern times became known as Ukraine. Kiyiv was founded in 482. The word for Russia in Russian is Rossia. The translation into English of the word Russia most likely came from the Latin. I waa most likely a mistranslation and it confused the word Ruthinia for Russia and therfore lost the the true name of Rossia with the long O sound.

Originally Posted by Sanojen Synty

Ruotsi, in ancient Swedish roths, rothors, rothskarl, rosbyggiar, plural, from which came the Modern Swedish rospigg, inhabitant of Roslagen. In old inscriptions roths lanti, rothrs lanti and Rothsland were the name of that area. Roden and Rothin were the later names for the shorebased land of Upland and eastern Gotland, which had to equip the sailors for any naval warfare. The words meant sailor and sailor commune. From these words came the ancient Russian Rus, Russia, the land of the Rus. Rossija in Modern Russian.
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From these Russian words come the English Russia, German Russland, and the inhabitant of that country, Russian and Russe.