[Footnote 44: See the entire passage (dignum, says Bayer, ut
aureis in tabulis rigatur) in the Annales Bertiniani
Francorum, (in Script. Ital. Muratori, tom. ii. pars i. p.
525,) A.D. 839, twenty-two years before the aera of Ruric.
In the xth century, Liutprand (Hist. l. v. c. 6) speaks of
the Russians and Normans as the same Aquilonares homines of
a red complexion.]