Editing Sviatoslav I (section)

==Name==
The ''[[Primary Chronicle]]'' records Sviatoslav as the first ruler of the [[Kievan Rus']] with a name of [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] origin, as opposed to his predecessors, whose names had [[Old Norse]] forms. Some scholars see the name of Sviatoslav, composed of the Slavic roots for "holy" and "glory", as an artificial derivation combining the names of his predecessors [[Oleg of Novgorod|Oleg]] and [[Rurik]],<ref>See {{lang|ru|А.М. Членов. К вопросу об имени Святослава, in Личные имена в прошлом, настоящем и будущем: проблемы антропонимики}} (Moscow, 1970).</ref> but modern researchers question the possibility of such a translation of names from one language to another.<ref>Anna Litvina. Fyodor Uspensky. The choice of the name of the Russian princes in the X-XVI centuries. Dynastic history through the prism of anthroponymy.&nbsp;– Moscow, 2006 .-- 904 p.&nbsp;– 1000 copies.&nbsp;– ISBN 5-85759-339-5.&nbsp;– P. 41.</ref><ref>Elena Rydzevskaya. Ancient Russia and Scandinavia in the 9th–14th centuries Moscow: Nauka, 1978. Pp. 203</ref> '''Sveinald''' or '''Sveneld''' is identical to Sviatoslav, as the Norse rendition of the Slavic name.<ref>Paul R. Magocsi (2010) A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples,	University of Toronto Press, p. 68, {{ISBN|1442610212}}.</ref>
The 10th-century Eastern Roman Emperor [[Constantine VII]]'s Greek-language work ''[[De Administrando Imperio]]'' ("On the Governance of the Empire") records his name as ''Σφενδοσθλάβος'' ("Sfendostlabos").