The opening page of Chapter Two refers to:
the Dnieper
Pecheneg tribesmen
Constaninople (scroll down)
Grand Prince Yaroslav
Kiev
Lithuanians
kvass
Oleg Vladimirovitch is a trader who invokes "Our Lord," in the style of Nicholas van Rijn. We expect Duncan and Oleg to meet in an earlier era but have not reread that far yet.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I remember this Oleg Vladimirovich! And esp. of how he referred to Grand Prince Yaroslav as "What a man, cripple though he was." Yaroslav of Kiev was one of those unusually strong willed rulers overcoming a serious disability to still be an active and vigorous leader.
And we see Yaroslav the Wise in THE LAST VIKING, btw.
Sean
Sean,
Right on!
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
And one of Jaroslav the Wise's daughters, Elizabeth, is well known to us, in Anderson's THE LAST VIKING. Another daughter, Anne, was queen consort of France for Henry I, which means Yaroslav still has descendants thru their son Philip I.
Sean
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