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Hah! They are wrong. [/quote]
It is English Etymology Dictionary.

Русалка, русалиа is from Greek.

So ХОЛМ, HOLM/HOLME is not borrowed word. It is common word for Germanic and Slavic languages.
It was always and everywhere ;-)

Vikings were just hired as military experts to rule armed forces of Slavic.
Gradually the power of highest military commanders (Князь) increased and they became civil governors also.
So the role of...

I found it!

so
пуд - pund. Мeaning of the word is 40 times large in Russian :-)

Or vice versa.
I found some list of Russian words borrowed from Scandinavia and try to translate it to Swedish:

сельдь - sill (Sild in Danish)
ларь - lår
пуд - ?(Pud in Deutsch)
крюк - krok...