Was this guy even real? I've read some historians opinions recently, that Rurik actually never existed. That the word Rurik comes from West slavic word for Hawk, that was a symbol of some Obotrites tribes who lived on German territory back then and then came to Russia, and that Rurik is a mythical figure was added into Russian history chronicles way later, and there's no mention of him in IX or X century sources. There was a danish guy named Rorik , but thats like different person