Roden, Sweden
Roden is the old designation of the coastal areas of Svealand, that in wartime would man and equip the ships that sailed out in ledung.
It was not only the eastern part of the province of Uppland that was called "Roden" but also other provinces by the Swedish "East sea", like the coastal areas of the province Östergötland.
The scholarly consensus is that the Rus' people originated in what is currently coastal eastern Sweden around the eighth century and that their name has the same origin as Roslagen in Sweden. According to the prevalent theory, the name Rus, like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden, is derived from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in earlier times. The name Rus would then have the same origin as the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden: Ruotsi and Rootsi.
