Hamlet: Yorik, Ryruk and York

Hypothesis: Rurick of the Rus is the same as Rurik of the Danes, and is the source of the name of the city York.

The story of Hamlet comes originally from a twelfth century historion, Saxo Grammaticus. The story he describes occurred in the ninth century. In that story, the father of Hamlet's mother is Ryruk, and the Jester in Hamlet is named Yorik after this ancient king of the Danes- Hamlet is discussing how kings as Alexander and Caesar turn to dust. Rorik is the King of the Danes prior to Hamlet and father of Gertrude. There is of course a crossing of times with the 15th Century in the themes of Hamlet. The British King paying tribute to the Danish king is not named, but the circumstance fits the Danelaw in Britain. The Normans too are said to be descended from the Danes or Jutes, The Danes and Angles spring from brothers. Bede writing of the Angles and Saxons, mentions little of the Jutes, as though this were lost.

In the graveyard scene in Hamlet, the skull held by Hamlet in the most famous pose from the play is that of Yorik, the Jester of the king his father Hamlet, whom Hamlet was entertained by when he was young.

This name Yoric gains significance if it is Rorick (Arden note). In the Historical Hamlet, Rorik is the King of Denmark, under whom Feng and Amelth senior rule, so that in the history, the event that is the plot of Hamlet does not involve the crown. That Hamlet considers the legendary Danish king seems significant in the context of the mentions of Caesar and Alexander, and the mortality of kings.

Yoric may also be the source name for the city of York, so named when the Jutes ruled there. The Romans called York Eboracum, the Celts Eboracan, the reference said to be to the Yew tree. It seems rather likely that it was named after Rorick, when that area of Northumbria was ruled by Jutes, who are the proto-Danes, and the basis for the Danelaw and Norman invasion- Normans also being mixed with Danes..

One Rurick is also said to be the legendary Vorangian who founded the Vorangian Rus, when "Swedes" came to rule the Slavs south of Kiev, likely at the river Rus. Danes ruled Sweeden at various times in these misty ages of the 9th century. Rurick could also be a dynastic family name , but the Danish

Wikipedia (Rurick) confirms the hypothesis:  Rorik of Dorestad was a member of one of two competing families reported by the Frankish chroniclers as having ruled the nascent Danish kingdom at Hedeby. …After that, Rorik disappears from western sources for a considerable period of time. In 862, according to Russian sources, Rurik arrived in the eastern Baltic and built the fortress of Ladoga. Later he moved to Novgorod.”

To protect the Frisian coastline, Frankish kings enlisted the help of the Danes and appointed Haraldr Junior and his brother, Hroerekr, to protect the emporium.[1] The Franks allowed Hroerekr to take control of the land as long as he protected the coast from Viking invasions…

The coast was battered by Viking attacks, but it seems that Dorestad was left relatively unscathed. The Danish rulers held court on the coast for quite some time despite being not well liked by the people that they ruled. That is going to be when Rurik was younger, before Russia in 862, per hypothesis. He would then have been about 62 years old. Hamlet Sr., the father of Hamlet, is patterned after Feng in the story in Saxo Grammaticus, a duke ruling under Yorick, who is again the father of Gertrude. He “smote the sledded Polack on the Ice-”which is quite close to Kiev and the river Rus just South of Kiev along the Dneiper, where the founding of the Varangian Rus may have occurred. Rorik apparently caused the mint at Dorestead to be dissolved. But this is said to be an 855 mint:

A-mazing! Another victory for linguistic archaeology and giving ear to those 12th century writers thought telling tales about the Kings of ancient days. Saxo goes earlier than the British museum time chart. The Danes converted to Christianity in 986 under Harold Buetooth, the Russians, 988 under Vladimir the Great- shortly before the formal split between East and Western Churches. Denmark became Protestant in 1536.

Wiki: “The idea of identifying Rurik of Rus’ with Rorik of Dorestad was revived by the anti-Normanists Boris Rybakov and Anatoly H. Kirpichnikov in the mid-20th century,^[30] but Alexander Nazarenko and other scholars have objected to it.^[31]““In the late Viking period it is thought that the name Jorvik was shortened to something resembling its present form, York and in the medieval age the name York was generally used, although an alternative form ‘Yerk’ also existed at this time.” [England’s North East]

York is of course the city where Constantine was crowned, and we say where St. Helen met his father Constantius- the first Christian co emperor, in the late third century. St. Helen is from Colchester, an ancient British city that was Christian from the time of Lucius, after 179? AD. Hence the Jutes of York would be the first Danish Christians. It is also the city where Arthur fetches Guinevere- and the possibility is that Guinevere is descended from St. Helen, some 200 years prior. Where else would an Arthur find a Guinevere?

And now we get why Danilow of the Galicians is a Dan- Dan is an ancestor of the Danish Rurick, ancestor of The Vorangian Rus- crosschecking.

That would mean that the English king paying tribute to the Danes would likely be Alfred- 871-899, early in his reign. The invasion under Halfdan was 865-870, and there is said to be a Danish London coinage of 871-2. This is from the Danish kingdom of York, which we say was named after Ruruk or Jorik:

So did I ever tell you about the 3 Galatian colonies that became Lombardy, Galatia and Galycia of the Western Ukrainians?