The Rus ' people (Old East Slavic: Рѹсь; Modern Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian: Русь, romanised: Rus'; Old Norse: Garðar; Greek: Ῥῶς, romanised: Rhos) were an ethnos in early medieval eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norse people, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, settling and ruling along the river-routes between …

People and places. Rus (surname), a Romanian-language surname East Slavic historical territories and peoples (Cyrillic: Русь).See Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia. Rus' people, the people of Rus'; Rus' territories Kievan Rus', a medieval East Slavic state, centered in Kiev Rus' Khaganate, a ninth-century Eastern European state; Ruthenia