Comments on: Horn baby bottles? http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/406 History fetish? What history fetish? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:54:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/406/comment-page-1#comment-15709 livius drusus Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:44:48 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/406#comment-15709 I was getting that nationalist vibe from the "article", but it wasn't as overt as it sometimes is. (The Iranian press is without peer when it comes to archaeological PR running political interference.) Wooden = bony, eh? You'd think with all the spam I get from .ru addresses they'd have that sort of fine distinction all figured out by now. I was getting that nationalist vibe from the “article”, but it wasn’t as overt as it sometimes is. (The Iranian press is without peer when it comes to archaeological PR running political interference.)

Wooden = bony, eh? You’d think with all the spam I get from .ru addresses they’d have that sort of fine distinction all figured out by now.

]]> By: ironymetrics http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/406/comment-page-1#comment-15691 ironymetrics Sat, 31 May 2008 23:05:24 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/406#comment-15691 Very interesting! Russians love it when they dig up really old stuff. Especially certain nationalist groups, because they feel it gives Russia a stronger historical claim to being the <i>real</i> Slavic homeland. Velikii Novgorod (oddly, the Great New City) was one of the major centers of power in Kievan Rus and some historians assert that it was capital to Rurik, the legendary founder of the Rurikid dynasty before his son capture Kiev. You are correct about the "wooden" thing being a mistranslation. Referring to the Russian article, the proper translation would be "bony." Very interesting! Russians love it when they dig up really old stuff. Especially certain nationalist groups, because they feel it gives Russia a stronger historical claim to being the real Slavic homeland. Velikii Novgorod (oddly, the Great New City) was one of the major centers of power in Kievan Rus and some historians assert that it was capital to Rurik, the legendary founder of the Rurikid dynasty before his son capture Kiev.

You are correct about the “wooden” thing being a mistranslation. Referring to the Russian article, the proper translation would be “bony.”

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