Garðaríki

Later, from the Gardariki under the influence of the Swedish merchant, mercenaries and settlers (Rus ) was the first Russian State in Novgorod, which later became the conquest of Kiev in the Kiev Rus. This state had to contend with which survived until the end of the 10th century kingdom of the Khazars mainly.

Sverrir Jakobsson has shown in his thesis that the name came up in the drafting of the Icelandic sagas from the 13th century. Here, the historical term was Gardar (cities) extended to Gardarike - with probably the idea of a single state, as it gave him later, was projected in the 9th century of a fuzzy idea of the prevailing conditions.