Towns ofGarðaríki mentioned in Old Scandinavian sources, according to T. Jackson,[1] E. Melnikova,[2][3] K. Müllenhoff,[4] V. Thomsen,[5] and A. Bugge.[6]
The wordGarðaríki, which first appeared in Icelandic sagas in the twelfth century,[114] could stem from the wordsGarðar[115] andríki (an empire, realm, kingdom)[92][90][note 4] according to the common Scandinavian pattern for state formationsX+ríki.[117]Garða is the genitive form ofGarðar,[105][112] therefore the compoundGarðaríki could be translated into English as "the kingdom of Garðar" or "the empire of Garðar".[113][11][106] The nameGarðar itself was used inskaldic poems, runic inscriptions and early sagas up to the twelfth century to refer to the lands to the east of Scandinavia populated by the Rus' people,[118][119][120] primarily to Novgorodian Rus'.[16]
Garðar is a plural form of the Old Norse wordgarðr which referred to 1) a fence; 2) a fortification; 3) a yard; 4) a court; 5) a farm; 6) a village house,[121][122][94][note 5] while the related Old Russian wordгородъ[note 6] referred to 1) a fence; 2) a fortification; 3) a field defensive work; 4) a settlement.[95][128] Since there is an overlapping meaning among the ones these related words once had ("a fence, a fortified place"), bothgarðr andгородъ could mean the same at one time in the past.[129] Thus, some researches interpretedGarðar as a collective name for Old Rus' towns[130][131] encountered by Scandinavians on their way fromLyubsha andLadoga down theVolkhov River into other Slavonic lands.[132] The younger toponymGarðaríki could mean "the realm of towns", or "the country of towns".[133][134]
^The original name for the lands of Rus', particularly ofNovgorodian Rus', in Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic sources, including runic inscriptions, poetry of skalds and sagas, was the toponymGarðar.[14][15][16] First seen in the poemÓláfsdrápa composed byHallfreðr Vandræðaskáld in 996.[17] The toponym is based on the rootgarð- with a wide range of meanings.[18][19]
^Today's Veliky Novgorod encompassesGorodishche, an important administrative and trade center of the 9th century, which was originally known by the Scandinavians asHólmgarðr.[26][27][28][29] Although its Old Norse name was then transferred to Novgorod, Gorodische later regained some of its importance and served as the residence of Novgorodian princes.[30][31][32][33]Holmgarðr orHólmgarðaborg[34] is generally identified with Novgorod in literature[35][36][37][38] and research articles.[39][40][41][42]
^Þiðreks saga mentions King Hertnid, who ruledRuziland and whose capital wasHólmgarðr.[47] Örvar-Odds saga says that all the kings ofGarðaríki paid tribute to King Kvillánus who resided inHólmgarðr.[48] Hervarar saga mentions King Hrollaug, the most powerful king of that time, who resided inHólmgarðr.[49] Eymundar saga tells of King Jarizleifr as a king residing inHólmgarðr, the best part ofGarðaríki, and ruling over the wholeGarðaríki.[50] Göngu-Hrólfs saga representsHólmgarðaríki (i.e. the realm ofHólmgarðr, the kingdom belonging toHólmgarðr as its capital)[51] as another name forGarðaríki.[52] Two versions of Göngu-Hrólfs saga[53][54] speak ofHólmgarðaborg as the main seat of the king ofGarðar, equating it to Novgorod of their time (Nógarðar).[55] Þjalar-Jóns saga represents all minor kings as liege lords of the King ofHólmgarðr.[56][57]
^Old Norseríki, Old High Germanrīhhi, and Old Englishrīce stem from the Proto-Germanic*rīkja- meaning "kingdom, reign, realm"[97][100][116]
^Old Norsegarðr, Old High Germangart(o) ("garden, enclosure"), as well as Old Englishġeard ("courtyard, enclosure") go back to the Proto-Germanic*gardaz or*ʒarðaz[123][98][107][124][125]
^Old Russianгородъ,[96][126] Old Church Slavicградъ, and Russianгород stem from the Proto-Slavic*gȏrdъ meaning "fortification, town".[91][127]
^Some scholars linked Svíþjóð hin kalda or "Sweden the Cold" to the ancient Sarmatia and assumed that Gardariki was located there.[142][143][144][145]
^abJackson 2003, p. 40–41: "Old Norse sources have preserved the names of the twelve towns that are considered by the medieval authors, as well as by their modern publishers, to have been Old Russian towns. These areHólmgarðr, Aldeigjuborg, Kœnugarðr, Súrdalar, Pallteskia, Smaleskia, Móramar, Rostofa, Sýrnes, Gaðar, Alaborg, Danparstaðir. The first eight of them are practically unanimously associated with Novgorod, Ladoga, Kiev, Polotsk, Smolensk, Suzdal, Murom and Rostov."
^Melnikova 1986, p. 38: "Полоцк, Полтеск — Pallteskja, Смоленск — Smaleskja ... Móramar (Муром) и Súrdalar (Суздаль) [Polotsk, Poltesk — Pallteskja, Smolensk — Smaleskja ... Móramar (Murom) and Súrdalar (Suzdal)]"
^Müllenhoff 1865,p. 346: "Kœnugarðr (Kiew), Palteskia (Polotzk) und Smaleskia (Smolensk)"
^Thomsen 1877, p. 70: "Thus mention is often made of the old commercial townAldegjuborg, the Russian (Old-)Ladoga, standing on the little river Volkhov, at some distance from its fall into lake Ladoga, called by the ScandinaviansAldegja. Another town which is extremely often mentioned is Novgorod, which was called by the ScandinaviansHólmgarðr, probably because it stood on a holm situated at the point where the Volkhov issues from lake Ilmen. The Old Norse name of Kiev wasKœnugarðr, Polotsk was calledPalteskja, etc."
^Bugge 1906, p. 250: "Rußland selbst und mehrere russische Städte tragen in den isländischen Sagas nordische Namen, z.B.Garđar oderGarđaríki ″Rußland″,Holmgarđr ″Nowgorod″,Aldeigjuborg ″Altladoga″,Kœnugarđr ″Kiew″,Surdalar ″Susdal″,Smalenskia ″Smolensk″ undPalteskia. [Rus' itself and several Rus' towns are called by their Nordic names in the Sagas, e.g.Garđar orGarđaríki ″Rus'″,Holmgarđr ″Novgorod″,Aldeigjuborg ″Old Ladoga″,Kœnugarđr ″Kiev″,Surdalar ″Suzdal″,Smalenskia ″Smolensk″ andPalteskia.]"
^Duczko 2004, p. 1: "The state of the Eastern Slavs—Russia, orRhosia according to the Byzantines of mid-tenth century—was called in the medieval Norse literatureGardariki, or in the earlier, Viking-age sources justGardar, a term originally restricted to the non-Slav territory of Ladoga-Ilmen."
^Skeie 2021, p. 72: "Gardarike, or “the cities”, an umbrella term for the multi-ethnic trading and craft centres located along the Russian rivers."
^Dølo 2017, p. 87: "I de gamle norrøne kildene blir det reelle riket Rus beskrevet som Gardarike. Rus besto av flere riker løst knyttet til hverandre. Geografisk er det snakk om hovedsakelig Novgorod-området i dagens Russland og byer rundt Dvina elven. [In the Old Norse sources, the real kingdom of Rus is described as Garðaríki. Rus consisted of several kingdoms loosely connected to each other. Geographically, it is mainly about the Novgorod area in today's Russia and cities around the Dvina river.]"
^abcCleasby & Vigfússon 1874, p. 192: "Garðar, m. pl. (í Görðum),Garða-ríki orGarða-veldi, n.the empire of Garðar, is the old Scandin. name of the Scandinavian-Russian kingdom of the 10th and 11th centuries"
^de Vries 1977, p. 156: "Garðaríki, älter auchGarðar 'name des Wikingerreiches in Russland'."
^Blöndal 1924, p. 240: "Garðaríki [gar·ðari:GI, -ri:KI] n. npr. Navn paa den gamle nordisk-russiske Stat; Rusland."
^Gade & Whaley 2009, p. 279: "Garðar or Garðaríki is Novgorod (Hólmgarðr) and its territory in north-west Russia."
^Duczko 2004, p. 60: "These two original centres of Rus were Staraja Ladoga and Rurikovo Gorodishche, two points on the ends of an axis, the Volkhov, a river running for 200 km between two lakes, from the Ilmen in the south to the Ladoga in the north. This was the territory that most probably was originally called by the NorsemenGardar, a name that long after Viking Age was given much wider content and becomeGardariki, a denomination for whole Old Russian State."
^abcPritsak 1981, p. 366: "In the older sources, such as the scaldic poetry and the King's sagas, the usual ON name for Rus' (especially Novgorodian Rus') wasGarðar, the plural form ofGarðr."
^Jackson 2003, p. 37: "The earliest fixation ofGarðar, as a designation of Rus, is found in the second strophe ofÓláfsdrápa, a poem composed in 996 by the Icelandic skald Hallfreðr Vandræðaskáld (died ca. 1007)."
^Melnikova 2001, p. 72: "наименованиеHolmgarđr, особенно во множественном числеHolmgarđar, не раз употреблялось для обозначения Новгородской Руси, и в сагах о древних временах появляется даже композитHolmgarđaríki [the nameHolmgarđr, especially in its plural formHolmgarđar, was repeatedly used as a designation for Novgorodian Rus', and even the compoundHolmgarđaríki emerges in legendary sagas]"
^Fritzner 1891,p. 37: "holmgarðaríki, n. det til Holmgarðr som dets Hovedstad hørende Rige. [Holmgarðaríki, n. the kingdom belonging to Hólmgarðr as its capital.]"
^Mägi 2018,p. 158: "Several other stories of the components ofGarðaríki, or narratives where the nameGarðaríki was used interchangeably withHolmgarðaríki, these terms indicating presumably the same area, probably relied on old oral tradition. In the beginning of theSaga of Göngu-Hrólf it was specified that King Hreggvidr reigned in "...Holmgarðaríki, which some people callGarðaríki."
^Price 2000, p. 264: "The initial focus of the Scandinavian presence in European Russia seems to have been the Volkhov river, which they had reached from the Gulf of Finland via the Neva and Lake Ladoga."
^Nosov 1998, p. 80: "Письменные источники и археологические материалы рисуют нам сложную и многообразную картину славяно-скандинавских отношений в Северной Руси. [Written records and archaeological data reveal the complex and versatile relationship between the Slavs and Scandinavians in the Northern Rus’.]"
^Thomsen 1877, p. 70: "The localities in Russia, or Garðaríki, which are mentioned in the Sagas are more particularly those grouped nearest round the Gulf of Finland which were evidently constantly frequented by the Scandinavians."
^Melnikova 2001, p. 72: "однако уже с середины IX в. в нескольких километрах от будущего детинца города на высоком берегу Волхова существовал крупный центр, где располагался скандинавский военный контингент и который получил название Городища под Новгородом (ныне в черте г. Новгорода). [but already in the mid-9th century a few kilometers from the future city's Kremlin on the high bank of the Volkhov there was a large center with Scandinavian military presence which was called Gorodishche near Novgorod (currently within the limits of Novgorod).]"
^Price 2000, p. 265: "The settlement established in the ninth century has been known since the 12th century as Gorodišce, a name meaning “deserted fortress” and coined with respect to its successor (“Novgorod” means “new fortress”);"
^Price 2000, p. 265: "It was probably Gorodišce that the Norse referred to asHólmgarðr, the “settlement on the islands”."
^Nosov 1987, p. 76: "The Ryurik Gorodishche existed, undoubtedly, in the mid-9th century and was probably founded even earlier."
^Price 2000, p. 268: "The beginnings of Novgorod can be dated archaeologically to the early tenth century (even though the name is used in theRussian Primary Chronicle to refer to the ninth-century settlement at Lake Ilmen, it is likely that prior to the 920s it is Gorodišce that is meant). Settlement seems to have shifted gradually from the latter island fortress, which after a century of abandonment was later reoccupied as the seat of the prince of Novgorod."
^Melnikova 1998,p. 654: "It seems justifiable to suppose that originally the nameHólmgarðr designated the Gorodishche settlement and was transferred to Novgorod after it gained superiority in the region."
^Nosov 1987, p. 73: "During the existence of the Old Russian state Gorodishche served as the residence of Novgorodian princes who were squeezed out of the city by the developing republican system."
^Nosov 1987, p. 85: "Novgorod which sprang into existence some time later in the locality and was called Holmgård by the Scandinavians received this name."
^Clunies Ross 2017, p. 298: "Ingigerðr, daughter of King Hreggviðr of Hólmgarðaríki (Novgorod)."
^Clunies Ross 2017, p. 301: "Hilmir, sonr Sturlaugs, mun stýra Hólmgarði ...The prince, son of Sturlaugr, will govern Novgorod;"
^Hjardar & Vike 2016,p. 119: "The trading centre ofNovgorod, orHolmgard as the Vikings called the town, was founded on an island in the River Volkhov."
^Peterson 2016,p. 223: "Holmgarðir [or Holmgarðr] being the Old Norse name for Novgorod, a term well understood in Viking Sweden."
^Jackson 2015, p. 173: "Лучше других городов источникам известен отождествляемый с НовгородомHólmgarðr [Hólmgarðr, which is identified with Novgorod, appears in the sources more often than other towns]"
^Kahle 1905, p. 16: "Hólmgarðr ist die stadt Nowgorod, die hauptstadt des im 9. jh. von schwedischen eroberern gestifteten reiches Garðaríki (Russland). [Hólmgarðr is the city of Novgorod, the capital of the kingdom Garðaríki (Rus') established by Swedish conquerors in the 9th c.]"
^Müllenhoff 1865,p. 346: "so kann Holmgarðr vernünftigerweise doch nichts anders als Novgorod sein [in this way Holmgarðr cannot be any other place but Novgorod]"
^Jackson 2003, p. 45: "The Old Norse place-nameHólmgarðr has traditionally been considered to be the designation of Novgorod."
^Pritsak 1981, p. 369: "The Old Rusʼian “town” (gorod) whose name is attested with certainty in Swedish inscriptions ishulmkarþHōlmgarðr, “(Great) Novgorod.”"
^Schröder 1917, p. 134: "Nógarðar, das heutige Nowgorod am Ilmensee, das in den skandinavischen quellen meistHólmgarðr heißt [Nógarðar, modern-day Novgorod on the lake Ilmen, which is generally calledHólmgarðr in Scandinavian sources]"
^Thomsen 1877, p. 70: "Another town which is extremely often mentioned is Novgorod, which was called by the ScandinaviansHólmgarðr"
^abÞiðreks saga, chpt. 22: "Hertnið konungr, er í þann tíma stýrði Rúzilandi ...Hólmgarð, er höfuðstaðr er fyrir borgum Hertniðs konungs [King Hertnid, who at that time ruled Ruziland ...Hólmgarð, which is the capital of King Hertnid's cities]".
^Örvar-Odds saga, chpt. 30. Bardagi Odds ok Ögmundar: "Garðaríki er svá mikit land, at þat var þá margra konunga ríki. Marró hét konungr. Hann réð fyrir Móramar; þat land er í Garðaríki. Ráðstafr hét konungr. Ráðstofa heitir þar, er hann réð fyrir. Eddval hét konungr. Hann réð fyrir því ríki, er Súrsdal heitir. Hólmgeirr hét sá konungr, er næst Kvillánus réð fyrir Hólmgarði. Paltes hét konungr. Hann réð fyrir Palteskjuborg. Kænmarr hét konungr. Hann réð fyrir Kænugörðum, en þar byggði fyrst Magok, sonr Japhets Nóasonar. Þessir konungar allir, sem nú eru nefndir, váru skattgildir undir Kvillánus konung. [Garðaríki was such a vast land that it was a kingdom of many kings. Marró was the name of one king who ruled over Móramar, a land inGarðaríki. Ráðstafr was the name of another king, and Ráðstofa was the land where he ruled. Eddval was the name of a king who ruled over the kingdom called Súrsdal, and Hólmgeirr was the name of the king who had ruled over Hólmgarðr before Kvillánus. Paltes was the name of a king who ruled over Palteskjuborg. Kænmarr was the name of another king who ruled over Kænugörðum, where the first settler was Magog, son of Noah’s son, Japheth. All these kings paid tribute to King Kvillánus]".
^Petersen 1847, p. 27: "Eitt sumar sendi hann menn austr í Hólmgarða, at bjóða Hrollaugi konungi barnfóstr, er þá var ríkastr konúngr [One summer he sent men east to Hólmgarðr to offer to bring up the child of King Hrollaug, who was then the most powerful king]".
^Vigfússon 1862,p. 133: "Hon segir Jarizleifi konungi at hann skal bafua hinn æzsla hlut Gardarikis en þat er Holmgard… Jarizleifr konungr skal vera yfir Gardariki [She tells to King Jarizleifr that he will get the best part of Gardariki - Holmgard... King Jarizleifr will rule over Gardariki]".
^Fritzner 1891,p. 37: "holmgarðaríki, n. det til Holmgarðr som dets Hovedstad hørende Rige [Holmgarðaríki, n. the kingdom belonging to Hólmgarðr as its capital]"
^Rafn 1830,p. 237: "...hann átti at ráða fyrir Hólmgarðaríki, er sumir menn kalla Garðaríki [...he ruled over Hólmgarðaríki, which some people call Garðaríki]".
^GKS 2845 Sögubók 1450, p. 54v: "holmg(ar)ða b(or)g e(r) mest(r) atset(r) g(ar)ða k(onung)s þ(at) er nu kallað nog(ar)ðar".
^AM 589 f Sögubók 1450, p. 36r-36v: "i holmg(ar)ða b(or)g er mest(r) atset(r) garða k(onun)gs þ(at) er nu allt kallat nog(ar)ðar ok ruðzala(n)d".
^Rafn 1830,p. 362: "í Hólmgarðaborg er mest atsetr Garðakonúngs, þat er nú kallat Nógarðar [the main seat of the king of Garðar is in Hólmgarðaborg, which is now called Nógarðar]".
^Lavender 2015, p. 92: "All of the minor kings are liege lords of the King of Hólmgarður himself".
^White 2016, p. 91: "Allir smákonungar eru lýðskyldir sjálfum Hólmgarðskonungi [All the kinglets are homages to the king of Hólmgarðr himself]".
^Jackson 2015, p. 175: "в сознании авторов и их слушателей Хольмгард на всем протяжении сложения и записи саг оставался столицей лежащей за Балтийским морем страны Гарды/Гардарики [throughout the composition and recording of the sagas, in the minds of the authors and their listeners, Hólmgarðr remained the capital of the country Garðar/Garðaríki across the Baltic Sea]".
^Melnikova 2001, p. 71: "для скандинавов Северо-Западная Русь всегда представлялась центральной и главной частью Древнерусского государства, а Новгород - столицей Руси [Scandinavians always regarded the North-Western Rus' as the central and main part of the Old Rus' state, and Novgorod as the capital of Rus']".
^Braun 1924, p. 170: "Weit auffallender ist, daß nach den sǫgur das ganze politische Leben Rußlands sich in Novgorod (Hólmgarðr) konzentriert: es wird überall und immer als Hauptstadt des Reiches aufgefaßt [Far more remarkable is that, according to the sagas, the whole political life of Rus' is concentrated in Novgorod (Hólmgarðr): it is understood everywhere and always as the capital of the realm]".
^Liljegren 1818, p. 204: "Holmgard eller Holmgardaborg, en stad, som af fremlingar mycket besöktes, var deruti hufvudstad och Gardarikes Konungasäte [Holmgard or Holmgardaborg, a city much visited by foreigners, was the capital and seat of the king of Gardariki]".
^Price 2000, p. 264: "Ladoga, known to the Norse asAldeigjuborg"
^Pritsak 1981, p. 31: "Aldeigjuborg (Old Ladoga), the oldest civic center in Eastern Europe".
^Thomsen 1877, p. 70: "Thus mention is often made of the old commercial townAldegjuborg, the Russian (Old-)Ladoga, standing on the little river Volkhov, at some distance from its fall into lake Ladoga, called by the ScandinaviansAldegja".
^Thomsen 1877, p. 70: "The Old Norse name of Kiev wasKœnugarðr".
^Melnikova 1986, p. 38: "Súrdalar (Суздаль) [Súrdalar (Suzdal)]".
^Melnikova 1986, p. 38: "Móramar (Муром) [Móramar (Murom)]".
^Jackson 2015, p. 173: "Городов, однако, упоминаемых на территорииГардарики, во всей совокупности древнескандинавских письменных памятников можно насчитать лишь двенадцать. Восемь из них (Hólmgarðr, Aldeigjuborg, Kænugarðr, Pallteskja, Smaleskia, Súrdalar, Móramar, Rostofa) практически однозначно отождествляются исследователями с Новгородом, Старой Ладогой, Киевом, Полоцком, Смоленском, Суздалем, Муромом и Ростовом; остальные четыре названия (Sýrnes, Gaðar, Álaborg, Danparstaðir) имеют не столь однозначные толкования [Of the cities, however, mentioned in the territory ofGarðaríki, in the entire body of the old Scandinavian written records, only twelve can be counted. Eight of them (Hólmgarðr, Aldeigjuborg, Kænugarðr, Pallteskja, Smaleskia, Súrdalar, Móramar, Rostofa) are almost definitely identified by scholars with Novgorod, Old Ladoga, Kiev, Polotsk, Smolensk, Suzdal, Murom and Rostov; the other four names (Sýrnes, Gaðar, Álaborg, Danparstaðir) have less unambiguous interpretations]".
^Bugge 1906, p. 250: "Rußland selbst und mehrere russische Städte tragen in den isländischen Sagas nordische Namen, z.B.Garđar oderGarđaríki ″Rußland″,Holmgarđr ″Nowgorod″,Aldeigjuborg ″Altladoga″,Kœnugarđr ″Kiew″,Surdalar ″Susdal″,Smalenskia ″Smolensk″ undPalteskia. [Rus' itself and several Rus' towns are called by their Nordic names in the Sagas, e.g.Garđar orGarđaríki ″Rus'″,Holmgarđr ″Novgorod″,Aldeigjuborg ″Old Ladoga″,Kœnugarđr ″Kiev″,Surdalar ″Suzdal″,Smalenskia ″Smolensk″ andPalteskia.]"
^Geographical Treatise 1325, p. 1: "Í austanverþri Europa er Garðavelldi, þar er Hólmgarðr ok Pallteskja ok Smálenskja".
^Liljegren 1818, p. 204: "HOLMGARD, eller GARDARIKE, egenteligen så kalladt, tillföll Jarislaf, och utgjorde Novogorod, Ladoga, Bielo-Osero, Rostov och angränsande orter dess område".
^Runor G 114, section Inscription, English: "...in Garðir/Garde, he was with Vivi(?)..."
^Runor N 62, section Inscription, English: "Engli raised this stone in memory of Þóraldr, his son, who died in Vitaholmr - between Ustaholmr and Garðar (Russia)."
^Runor Sö 148, section Inscription, English: "Þjóðulfr (and) Búi, they raised this stone in memory of Farulfr, their father. He met his end in the east in Garðar (Russia)."
^Runor Sö 338, section Inscription, English: "He fell in battle in the east in Garðar (Russia), commander of the retinue, the best of landholders."
^Runor U 209, section Inscription, English: "Þorsteinn made (the stone) in memory of Erinmundr, his son, and bought this estate and earned (wealth) in the east in Garðar (Russia)."
^Runor U 636, section Inscription, English: "Ǫlvé had this stone raised in memory of Arnfastr, his son. He travelled to the east to Garðar (Russia)."
^Runor Öl 28, section Inscription, English: "Herþrúðr raised this stone in memory of her son Smiðr, a good valiant man. Halfborinn, his brother, sits in Garðar (Russia)."
^Pritsak 1981, p. 346: "R i karþum aR. uaR uiue meR::h ... he [Liknat] was in Garðar".
^Pritsak 1981, p. 396: "Þōrstæinn must have spent a long time in Rus' since he managed to accumulate a sizable fortune there (as witnessed by his huge monument, Sö 338)".
^Pritsak 1981, p. 396: "Þōrstæinn, then, was a commander (forungi) of a retinue (lið) in Rus' (i garþum)".
^Pritsak 1981, p. 396: "han fial i urustu austr i garþum ... He fell in action east in Garðar (Rus')".
^abDerksen 2008, p. 178: "*gȏrdъ m. o (c) ‘fortification, town’ ... OCSgradъ ‘wall, town, city, garden’ ... Ru.górod ‘town, city’".
^abde Vries 1977, p. 446: "ríki n. ‘macht, herrschaft; reich’ [ríki n. ‘power, rule; empire’]".
^Durkin 2014, section 4.2: "Their common ancestor can be reconstructed fairly certainly as a proto-Germanic adjective*rīkja-, showing a root*rīk- and a suffix*-ja- which forms adjectives. The same suffix could also form nouns, and a noun formation*rīk-ja- is reflected by Old Englishrīce ‘kingdom’ and by a similar range of congnates, including Old High Germanrīhhi (> modern GermanReich)".
^abJackson 2003, p. 39: "Old Norsegarðr has the following meanings: 1) a fence of any kind, a fortification; 2) a yard (an enclosed space); 3) a court-yard, court and premises; 4) a separated farm (in Iceland); 5) a house or building in a country or village (especially in Norway, Denmark and Sweden)".
^abJackson 2003, p. 39: "The Old Russian word, in its turn, has the following meanings: 1) a fence; 2) a fortified place, town walls, a fortification; 3) a field defensive work; 4) a settlement, an administrative and trade center".
^abJøhndal 2018, section 1: "городъ Old Russian, common noun, occurs 322 times in the corpus ... English: city ... Russian: город".
^abKoch 2019, p. 90: "KINGDOM, REIGN, REALM. Proto-Germanic*rīkja-: Gothicreiki, Old Norseríki, Old Englishrīce, Old Saxonrīki, Old High Germanrīhhi; Proto-Celtic*rīgyom: Old Irishríge 'ruling, kingship, sovereignty'".
^abKroonen 2013, p. 169: "OHGgart m. ʻenclosureʼ =>*ghordh-o- (IE) ... Ano-stem derived from the root*gherdh-".
^abKroonen 2013, p. 413: "OHGrīhhi n. ʻreign, realmʼ <*rīkja-".
^Mallory & Adams 1997, p. 199: "*góhrdhos (*góhrthos ~*góhrdhos) ʻfence, hedge; enclosure, pen, foldʼ ... From*gherdh- ʻgirdʼ which, as a verb, exists only in Germanic".
^Mallory & Adams 1997, p. 329: "The traditional and still majority view is that in the word for ʻkingʼ we have an agent noun derived from*h3reĝ- ʻstretch out the arm; directʼ".
^abMelnikova 2001, p. 70: "Garđaríki, где первая основаGarđa- в форме род. п. мн. ч. дополняется терминомríki «государство» [Garđaríki, where the first stemGarđa- in the genitive plural form is supplemented by the termríki, "a state"]".
^abNosov 1998, p. 78-79: "Вся же Русь стала называться Gardariki - «страна гардов» [The whole country of Rus' began to be called Gardariki or «the country of gardr's»]".
^abOrel 2003, p. 126: "*ʒarđaz sb.m.: Gothgards ‘house, family, court’ (<*ʒarđiz), ON garðr ‘yard’".
^abWachler 1851,p. 442: "GARDHARIKI (mittlere Geographie), ist gebildet aus Gardha, Genitiv der Mehrzahl (Nominativ der Mehrzahl Gardhar), und aus riki, Reich [GARDHARIKI (medieval geography) is formed from Gardha, the genitive plural (the nominative plural Gardhar), and from riki, a realm]".
^abZoëga 1910, p. 195: "GARÐAR, m. pl.Russia; GARÐA-RÍKI, -VELDI, n.the Russian empire.
^Jackson 2003, p. 37: "According to Braun, the nameGarðaríki was created by those Icelanders who wrote down sagas from the late twelfth century".
^Jackson 2009,p. 217: "If our sources enable us to do it, we can examine the evolution of place-names in the process of land development. Since the Old Norse-Icelandic material is incomparable from this point of view, we can observe in it the formation of secondary place-names on the basis of the original ones (likeGarðaríki fromGarðar, orAldeigjuborg fromAldeigja)".
^Hoad 1988, p. 404: "From the same Gmc. stem are OE.rīce = OS.rīki, MLG. MDu.rīke (Du.rijk), OHG.rīhhi (G.reich), ON.ríki, Goth.reiki kingdom, royal power".
^Braun 1924, p. 194: "Und so entstand in der isländischen Kunstprosa der Ausdruck Garðaríki, nach dem Vorbild von Danaríki, Svíaríki (woraus Sverige) Hringaríki, Raumaríki u. a. m. Volkstümlich war das Wort ursprünglich nicht und ist es auch später nur auf Island durch die Sagaliteratur geworden".
^Jackson 2009,p. 217: "Garðar (generally thought to have been the name of Old Rus)".
^Jackson 2003, p. 37: "...in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries,Garðar was used for the designation of Old Rus all over Scandinavian Peninsula".
^Jackson 2003, p. 37: "In the skaldic poetry of the tenth through the twelfth century, Old Rus is called only by its earliest Old Norse nameGarðar. In the runic inscriptions of the eleventh century, the toponymGarðar is used nine times".
^de Vries 1977, p. 156: "garðr 1 m. 'zaun, hof, garten’".
^de Vries 1977, p. 156: "Gewöhnlich zugarðr ‘hof, festung’".
^Kroonen 2013, p. 169: "*garda- m. ‘courtyard’ ... OEgeard ‘id.’".
^Trubachyov 1980, p. 37: "*gordъ/*gorda/*gordь: ст.-слав,градъ [*gordъ/*gorda/*gordь: Old Slavonicградъ]".
^Thomsen 1877, p. 70: "This word is akin to the Russiangorod’, Old Slavonicgrad’, a stronghold, a town, which occurs in all Slavonic languages and cannot therefore well be borrowed from the Old Norsegarðr".
^Jackson 2003, p. 39: "Proceeding from the fact thatgarðr andгородъ are related words and they have, among other meanings, a common one, 'a fence, a fortified place', it is natural to conclude that, at a certain chronological stage, they were identical in their meaning".
^de Vries 1977, p. 156: "…der ältere NameGarðar war vielleicht eine zusammenfassende Bezeichnung von russischengrady oder 'städte'…".
^Braun 1924, p. 196: "Garðar bedeutet also die Gesamtheit der slavisch-russischen Städte mit ihren Bezirken".
^Jackson 2003, p. 40: "Thus, the Scandinavians, who set on their way from Ladoga down the Volkhov into other Slavonic territories, came across a chain of fortified settlements, that were called by the local populationгорода [goroda]".
^Petersen 1847, p. 57: "Ívarr hinn víðfaðmi lagði þá undir sik allt Svíaveldi; hann vann ok Danaveldi ok Kúrland, Saxland ok Eystland, ok öll Austrríki allt til Garðaríkis".
^Sögubrot, chpt. 2. Vélræði Ívars konungs: "…Garðaríki. Þar réð fyrir sá konungr, er Raðbarðr hét".
^Rafn 1830,p. 237: "Sva byrjar þessa frásögu, at Hreggviðr er konúngr nefndr; hann átti at ráða fyrir Hólmgarðaríki, er sumir menn kalla Garðaríki…".
^Sörla, chpt. 1. Frá Sörla ok ætt hans: "Í þann tíma, sem Hálfdan konungr Brönufóstri stýrði Svíþjóð inni köldu".
^Jones 2001,p. 248: "Norse sources call geographical RussiaSvíþjóð hinn mikla, Sweden the Great, andGarðaríki, the kingdom of (fortified) towns or steads".
^Laing 1844, p.216: "Swithiod the Great, or the Cold, is the ancient Sarmatia; and is also called Godheim in the mythological sagas, or the home of Odin and the other gods".
^Rafn 1852, p.438: "In ea parte orbis, quæ Europa appellatur, Svethia Magna orienti proxima est, quo ad religionem Christianam propagandam Philippus apostolus venit. Hujus regni pars est Russia, quam nos Gardarikiam appellamus".
^Sturluson 1230, chpt. 48. Dauði Haralds konungs grenska: "Hit sama kveld kom þar annarr konungr, sá hét Vissavaldr, austan or Garðaríki".
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