Rogvolod (; ; 920978) was the first chronicled prince of Polotsk. He reigned until 978, when he and his two sons were killed by Vladimir the Great, then the prince of Novgorod, who took his daughter Rogneda as a wife.
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Rogvolod (; ; 920978) was the first chronicled prince of Polotsk. He reigned until 978, when he and his two sons were killed by Vladimir the Great, then the prince of Novgorod, who took his daughter Rogneda as a wife.
==Name== In the Primary Chronicle, he is known as , probably a slavicized version of the Old Norse name Ragnvald. mentioned a possibility of the association of the name with the East Slavic words рог and володеть (the opinion of a 19th-century anti-Normanist historian Stepan Gedeonov, who argued for the Slavic origin of Rogvolod in his Varangians and Rus; Debugking the Nortmann Myth), noting, however, that there is no evidence against the foreign origin of the name.
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