In The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume VI, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra, A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows is the last Captain Flandry installment. After that, Flandry is an Admiral. A Knight... has an italicized introduction and afterword that are unfortunately unsigned. Their perspective is that of a Dennitzan writing long after the events described in the novel. He tells us that:
the poet Andrei Simich celebrated Dennitzan heroes;
tundra thunder beneath herds of gromatz;
orliks stoop on their prey;
dyavos roar when hunting;
a vilya's call is deadly whereas guslars sing sweetly in spring;
Yovan Matavuly led the colonists through lightless space to Dennitza, their Morning Star;
Toman Obilich killed wild Vladimir on a Glacier;
Gwyth sailed through the storms of the Black Ocean;
Stefan Miyatovich repelled reavers during the Troubles, here called the Night Years;
Gospodar Bodin Miyatovich led a raid (described in the novel);
when Bodin returned in glory, maidens danced and sang and every bell in Zorkagrad pealed;
Kossara was canonized and Dennitza remained at peace while Bodin was Gospodar.
The history of Dennitza stretches away into a remote future beyond our ken.
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Kaor, Paul!
And "Michael Karageorge" was an occasional pseudonym of Poul Anderson, which Hank Davis probably thought made for a suitably Andersonian precedent he could use. Anderson must also have known "Karageorge" is the name of the former ruling family of Serbia/Yugoslavia.
Ad astra! Sean
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