Truvor and Sineus were, according to the Primary Chronicle, the brothers of Rurik. The three brothers were asked by the Finnic and Slavic tribes in northern Russia to settle among them and to rule them. The two names are believed (Slavianophiles' theory) to be a Slavic misunderstanding based on the Scandinavian expressions Trú vor ("our faithful") and Sine hus ("his households" or "his clan"). The Russian Primary Chronicle (Russian: Повесть временных лет, Povest vremennykh let, which is often translated in English as Tale of Bygone Years), is a history of the early East Slavic state, Kievan Rus, from around 850 to 1110. ... This article is about a real person named Rurik. ... Finnic (Fennic, sometimes Baltic Finnic) may refer to Finnish-similar languages spoken close to the Gulf of Finland, i. ... The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. ... Slavianophile is the original Russian term not adequately translated into English as Slavophile. ...
Some Slavic historians speculate that the account of Rurik's invitation was borrowed from a hypothetical Norse saga, although all sagas talk of expeditions into Gardariki and never of invitations.
Instead of connecting Sineus to Signjotr and Truvor to Torvald, they suggest that the chronicler read a hypothetical saga and misinterpreted the Norse words 'sine hus' (with house) and 'tru voring' (with loyal guard) as the names of Rurik's brothers: Sineus and Truvor.
If so, this may very well be a Varangian expression carried down and misinterpreted by the Chronicler, but some Slav historians assert this to be a misinterpretation from an unknown saga.
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