Donald Trump believed to be direct descendant of Rurik the Viking

[Norse]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ian-state.html

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President-elect Donald Trump believed to have some Viking descendants
Genealogist claims he has links to Rurik who established the Russian state
And maybe Mr Trump's closer to Barack Obama than first thought with link

Soon to be US President Donald Trump may get his assertive rather than passive manner from his alleged Viking descendants.

Russian genealogists claim that Mr Trump is a direct descendent of Rurik the Viking who established the Russian state.

Whilst others believe it is his mother’s heritage that may provide the Viking link.

According to the nationalists newspaper Estonian World Review Russian genealogist Aleksey Nilogov says Mr Trump has ties to European royalty but he claims Barack Obama is also a descendant of Rurik.

More descendants include Henry III of England, the first three King Edwards, and Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots.

Mr Nilogov believes Mr Trump descends over the course of 35, 36 or 38 generations from the ninth century ruler, Rurik, via three distinct female lines.

The Invitation of the Varangians: Rurik (centre in red cape) and his brothers arrive in Staraya Ladoga, before 1912

According to the first Russian annals, the Primary Chronicle, Rurik was a Scandinavian "from the tribe of the Rus" whom the people of Novgorod invited in 862 to assume rule over them, as they had been unable to govern themselves.

Accompanied by his family and retinue, Rurik settled in Novgorod, and his brothers took control of adjacent regions. The area under their authority came to be called "the land of the Rus" and eventually “Rus”.

[TheForeigner]

Viking ancestors, not descendants. He is the descendant. Well I know some Gaelic Highland Scottish tribes were founded by Norse Vikings. But how would he get Varangian ancestry from his German and Scottish ancestors? And Rurik no less?!

[Norse]

Viking ancestors, not descendants. He is the descendant. Well I know some Gaelic Highland Scottish tribes were founded by Norse Vikings. But how would he get Varangian ancestry from his German and Scottish ancestors? And Rurik no less?!

Probably through later royal intermarriage. Many if not most people have royal ancestry if you go far enough back.

[RN97]

Yo dis d00d high caste all the way and I don't mean nordic, but he wuz literally kangz!

[Ülev]

N1C STRONK!!! http://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplog...#famous_people

[Linebacker]

[Fincher]

So is Jahmal from the projects more than likely.

[Szegedist]

Seems believable.

[Poise n Pen]

So is Jahmal from the projects more than likely.

That would be funny if that turned out to be the way jamal was kangz