chroniclers as having ruled the nascent Danish kingdom at Hedeby. After 860, Rorik of Dorestad disappears from western sources for a considerable period of time. In 862, according to Russian sources, Rurik arrived in the eastern Baltic. Rorik of Dorestad reappeared in Frankish chronicles in 870. In 882, Rorik is mentioned as dead (without a specific date of death). The Primary Chronicle places the death of Rurik of Novgorod in 879.

The idea of identifying Rurik of Rus' with Rorik of Dorestad was revived