Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Rostov Veliky" in English language version.
Old Norse sources have preserved the names of the twelve towns that are considered by the medieval authors, as well as by their modern publishers, to have been Old Russian towns. These are Hólmgarðr, Aldeigjuborg, Kœnugarðr, Súrdalar, Pallteskia, Smaleskia, Móramar, Rostofa, Sýrnes, Gaðar, Alaborg, Danparstaðir. The first eight of them are practically unanimously associated with Novgorod, Ladoga, Kiev, Polotsk, Smolensk, Suzdal, Murom and Rostov.
Автор саги об Одде-Стреле осмысляет название Ростов как Rađstofa [The author of the Örvar-Odds saga interprets the name Rostov as Rađstofa]