33.“遠行者”英格瓦爾:Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards (trans.), Vikings in Russia: Yngvar’s Saga and Eymund’s Saga (1989): 44-68, 59; Gunilla Larson, “Early Contacts Between Scandinavia and the Orient.” The Silk Road 9 (2011): 122-142.
34.最終,英格瓦爾病倒了:Anders Winroth, The Age of the Vikings (2014):82頁提到英格瓦爾,128頁提到越來越多的鱈魚骨頭。
35.《往年紀事》:成書於1113年,融合了神話與曆史。請參見Samuel Hazzard Cross和Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor的英譯本導論,The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text (1953):3—50頁,21頁提到了該版本的一個作者,59頁提到了邀請前往留裏克,65—69頁提到了公元911年的協議,82頁提到了君士坦丁的求婚,93—94頁提及前基督教時期的神祇,110頁提到了弗拉基米爾決定等待,111頁提到了使臣的報告,245頁注釋92提到了教皇派往羅斯的使節。
36.希臘火:Paolo Squatriti (trans.), The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona (2007):180頁提及希臘火,197—198頁提到了國王的機械。
37.一些羅斯人已經受洗成為基督徒:Jonathan Shepard, “The Coming of Christianity to Rus.” Conversion to Christianity: From Late Antiquity to the Modern Age: Considering the Process in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, ed. Calvin B. Kendall et al. (2009): 195-196.
38.為了給丈夫報仇:Shepard, “Back in Old Rus and the USSR”, 384-405, 400.
39.德意誌國王奧托一世:Shepard, “Byzantine Emissions.” 234-242, 236.
40.奧爾加辭去了:Shepard, “The Coming of Christianity to Rus.” 185-222,其中194頁提及基輔的埋葬地,195頁提及公元944年的協議。
41.弗拉基米爾和一支斯堪的納維亞雇傭軍:Janet Martin, Medieval Russia, 980-1584 (1995): 1-11.
42.猶太教為可薩人提供了……中間地帶:Peter Golden, “The Conversion of the Khazars to Judaism.” The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium Hosted by the Ben Zvi Institute, ed. Peter Golden et al. (2007): 123-162,其中152頁注釋145,153頁提及皈依猶太教,156頁提及皈依日期。