Editing Roxolani (section)

== Legacy ==
George Vernadsky theorized about the association of Rus and [[Alans]]. He claimed that ''Ruxs'' in Alanic means "radiant light", thus the ethnonym ''Roxolani'' could be understood as "bright Alans".<ref name="Vernadsky1959">{{cite book|author=George Vernadsky|title=The Origins of Russia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cPHTAAAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Clarendon Press|quote=In the Sarmatian period the Rus' were closely associated with the Alans. Hence the double name Rus- Alan (Roxolani). As has been mentioned,1 ruxs in Alanic means 'radiant light'. The name 'Ruxs-Alan' may be understood in two ways: ... of two clans or two tribes.1 That the Roxolani were actually a combination of these two clans may be seen from the fact that the name Rus (or Ros) was on many occasions used separately from that of the Alans. Besides, the armour of the ...}}</ref> He theorized that the name ''Roxolani'' a combination of two separate tribal names: the Rus and the Alans.<ref name="Vernadsky1959"/> It is not widely accepted. The most common theory about the origin of the word ''Russian'' is the Germanic version. The name ''Rus''{{'}}, like the Proto-Finnic name for [[Sweden]] (''*roocci''),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Saarikivi |first=Janne |title=The Oxford guide to the Uralic languages |date=2022 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-876766-4 |editor-last=Bakró-Nagy |editor-first=Marianne |location=Oxford |chapter=The divergence of proto-Uralic and its offspring |editor-last2=Laakso |editor-first2=Johanna |editor-last3=Skribnik |editor-first3=Elena K.|page=45}}</ref> from which the modern Finnish name ''Ruotsi'' is derived, is supposed to be descended from an [[Old Norse]] term meaning "the men who row" (''rods-'').<ref name="Blöndal2007">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vFRug14ui7gC&pg=PA1|title=The Varangians of Byzantium|last=Blöndal|first=Sigfús|date=1978|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521035521|page=1|access-date=2 February 2014|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414031004/https://books.google.com/books?id=vFRug14ui7gC&pg=PA1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto">Stefan Brink, 'Who were the Vikings?', in ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=wuN-AgAAQBAJ The Viking World] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414030955/https://books.google.com/books?id=wuN-AgAAQBAJ |date=14 April 2023 }}'', ed. by Stefan Brink and Neil Price (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008), pp. 4–10 (pp. 6–7).</ref>