What's in a Name?

[Kira November]

No: HPFGUIDX 59970

I am reading 'In Search of Zarathustra' in which the author traces the 
influence of the ancient religion Zoroastrianism on other religions ancient 
and modern.  In a section on the Bulgarian Empire (who knew there was one, 
raise your hands!) I came across this:

"Yet it is sometimes possible to read between the lines of their bare 
accounts and imagine how it must have been, say, on the day in 814 when the 
fearsome Khan Krum, after a whole year of preparation, led a huge army south 
from his territory in Thrace to besiege Constantinople."

and this:

"But Krum has defeated three Roman emperors in succession on the 
battlefield, and drunk wine from the silver-lined skull of Nicephorus, the 
last of them."


Kira November
who likes to go eclectic

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