[Sca-cooks] Eastern European History Cooking with Bonzer. . .

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In a message dated 2/11/2002 1:06:02 AM Mountain Standard Time, troy at asan.com
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> Or a Germanized variant of his actual name (so speaks Gwydion ap
> Adamnan, a.ka. G. Tacitus Adamantius). For example, I believe Paul
> Kovi, in his intro reference to Rumpolt, refers to him as Marcus
> Rumpoldt, and it took me a while to figure out who he meant.
>

And in that case it is now next to impossible to tell what the original was.
It just looks like an odd  German name now.

>
> I think "little Wallachia" isn't so much to distinguish it from some
> other Wallachia, as with, say, White Russia, just a reference to its
> being little, probably in comparison to various enemies. Not unlike
> the occasional references we see to Little Israel; they're still just
> talking about Israel.
>

Quite possible, especially since I haven't found any other reference to it
yet.  It's been a fun exercise at any rate

> You ought to read it: it's an abysmal story, well written, as opposed
> to "Frankenstein," which is a glorious story, abysmally written. But
> you should probably read Rumpolt first ;-).
>

I probably should, however any of these books would be more interesting than
my current reading selections at work, but anything is probably more
interesting that state workers' compensation statutes. :->


Noemi