The image and archaeology of the pechenegs

  • TITLU în română: Imaginea şI arheologia pecenegilor
  • Subiect: „“Taken in the mass, this is a nation to be feared, and a treacherous one”.Thus wrote Michael Psellos about the “western barbarians,” whom he regarded as closer to the realm of animals than to the society of humans: When they are thirsty, if they ind water, either from springs or in the streams, they at once throw themselves down into it and gulp it up; if there is no water, each man dismounts from his horse, opens its veins with a knife and drinks the blood. So they quench their thirst by substituting blood for water. After that they cut up the fattest of the horses, set ire to whatever wood they ind ready to hand, and having slightly warmed the chopped limbs of the horse there on the spot, they gorge themselves on the meat, blood and all. The refreshment over, they hurry back to their primitive huts and lurk, like snakes, in the deep gullies and precipitous cliffs which serve as their walls.”
  • Limba de redactare: engleză
  • Vezi publicația: Banatica
  • Editura: Muzeului Banatului Montan
  • Loc publicare: Reşiţa
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2013
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: 23; anul 2013
  • Paginaţia: 143-202
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