Sibling is a Russian language/history afficionado and has asked for a copy of the Primary Chronicle of Russia aka The Chronicle of Nestor for Christmas - can anyone recommend a good edition, as far as the accuracy/quality of the translation etc? And does anyone know if this is available in the modern Russian language, or as a dual English/Russian/Old Slavonic version anywhere?
Thank you!
Warhammer 40k Lore: A Necron Primary Chronicle - YouTube
This is an account of the Necrontyr people's origin and their heretical transformation, as told by a Necron named Mernebsen Lament-Keeper. In the linked video I narrate in the tone of a brooding, mummified, and vengeful sixty-million year old voice. As the Necrons have all lost at least some of their faculties, it drifts between cryptic poetry cursing the brutality of their halo star and colorful prose regarding the Old Ones. In concert with the shift in the fluff towards egyptian 'tomb kings in space' styling, many of the words are direct borrowings from Middle Egyptian, such as the Necron term for the Old Ones, "Yaret". That word is a Egyptian transliteration of the word uraeus which is the cobra that rests upon pharaonic crowns. Several other terms such as hk'wy (magician) feature. There are many strange aberrations of grammar. One example is the suffix -office, which is a calque from the contrived "Necron" language that renders the abstract of the noun it modifies. This is to reflect the vast gulf that separates the thought process of a human and a Necron. Even within the imperium many different genetic varieties of people reside, and many planets vary in their vernacular of Low Gothic.
While not being a clear or accessible account of Necron history, it covers everything from their development as an interstellar power to their Faustian bargain with the C'tan. It includes modern events with a wavering certitude on Mernebsen's part regarding the whereabouts of Szarekh. He relates that he may speak of past events as present because the distinction makes no difference to a Necron who has weathered many upstart alien eons and empires. Speaking in Low Gothic with some interspersed high gothic words, this historical account borne towards humanity is one part coercion, another demoralization, and yet another propaganda to garner sympathy for the Necrons. Some events are fabricated but most of what is discussed is canon. For accuracy, I still have marked it fanfiction.
Without further ado, here is the Necron Chronicle:
Silent, beyond our apprehension
Faster than any shield-phalanx could parry
An unassailed lunge to the flesh
Without carving cataracts to spill forth our red rivers
No splitting of heads and spines
Its unnumbered javelins volley
From the ancient-office to all unseen days a thousand golden sabre tips to our throats
Punctuating the c
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"History of Armenia, from B. C. 2247 to the year of Christ 1780, or 1229 of the Armenian era is a translation of an abridged version of the three-volume history of Armenia, originally written in Armenian by Father Mikβayel Chβamchβyantsβ and published in Venice in 1784β86. Chβamchβyantsβ was born in Istanbul in 1738, and in 1762 he became a member of the Armenian Catholic Mekhitarist order at the St. Lazar Monastery in Venice. Written in chronicle style and based on Armenian and non-Armenian primary source materials, this work by Chβamchβyantsβ was the first critical examination of the history of the Armenian people. In 1811 Chβamchβyantsβ produced an abridged version of the history, which HovhannΔs AvdaleantsΚ» (Johannes Avdall) translated into English and which was published in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata) in 1827. The translation includes a dedication by AvdaleantsΚ» to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, a preface by AvdaleantsΚ» containing an overview of the history of Armenia and assessments of the most important Armenian historians, and a postscript containing a summary of events in Armenia from 1780 to 1827."
Iβm writing a historical fiction story for a class about the period between WW1 and WW2 and how wartime political and personal tensions come to affect an extended family living in Lidice, a town some distance from Prague which is annihilated in WW2. Iβm taking some liberties with the laws of the time regarding draftsman military service to make them align more with US policies but I want to be pretty accurate and rich apart from that. So Iβd most like a book which takes a lot from primary sources and might give me an idea for how the (again, in the modern day) Czech people in different strata and/or professional realms of society felt about the dissolution of the Empire, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the ensuing Czechoslovakian state and republic all being formed both in the wake of and amidst the chaos of the World Wars.
Professor Tolkien's research into the history of the Third Age is extensive and thorough, and is apparently drawn from primary and secondary sources. I imagine it was considered ground-breaking and greatly revised our knowledge of world history at the time. There's been no additional original research in the intervening years since his era, unfortunately. Surely this is a field ripe for more attention from Historians. Is Prof. Tolkien considered a crank among other Historians? Can I see The Red Book or those Dwarf runes?
"Leaving Igor in Kiev, Oleg attacked the Greeks. He took with him a multitude of Varangians, Slavs, Chuds, Krivichians, Merians, Polianians, Severians, Derevlians, Radimichians, Croats, Dulebians, and Tivercians, who are Torks. All these tribes are known as Great Scythia by the Greeks. With this entire force, Oleg sallied forth by horse and by ship, and the number of his vessels was two thousand."
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