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Rollo was a powerful Viking leader of contested origin.

Dudo of Saint-Quentin, in his De moribus et actis primorum Normannorum ducum, tells of a powerful Danish nobleman at loggerheads with the king of Denmark, who had two sons, Gurim and Rollo ; upon his death, Rollo was expelled and Gurim killed.

William of Jumièges also mentions Rollo's prehistory in his Gesta Normannorum Ducum, but states that he was from the Danish town of Fakse.

Wace, writing some 300 years after the event in his Roman de Rou, also mentions the two brothers ( as Rou and Garin ), as does the Orkneyinga Saga.