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==Medieval period==
*[[Hreðric and Hroðmund|Hreðric]], king [[Hroðgar]]'s son in ''[[Beowulf]]'', who has various counterparts named ''Rørik'' and ''Hrœrekr'' in [[Norse mythology]]
*[[Hrœrekr Ringslinger]] (''Rørik Slængeborræ'' or ''Rørik Slyngebond''), mythological king in what is today Denmark. Father of Queen Gertrude, the prototype of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s Prince [[Hamlet]], possibly mixed up with the Viking founderprince of Novgorod and the Russian Empire, [[Rurik]]; or the same person.
*[[Roderic]], 8th-century [[king of the Visigoths]] in Visigothic Kingdom of Spain.
*[[Rorik of Dorestad]], chieftain who ruled Frisia, in the 9th century