Not what I was planning for my first post back...
but I feel like I have to post something just to get the juices going. Please feel free to not watch it, as it's a very foul-mouthed history lesson. This is the actual response of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire when he told them to submit to him.
Well, with the small difference that in the original 17th century Ukrainian, it rhymed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQTlT8-qYUk
Well, with the small difference that in the original 17th century Ukrainian, it rhymed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQTlT8-qYUk
posted by melilotnfosco | 10:14 PM
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and yes, I now have a book on the Cossacks on my to-read list on the library website
The angry Scottish accent!
I have no idea who these people are. You have made my head explode trying to remember key players in the Ottoman Empire (Russia, right???). It was funny—in a foul mouthed way. I just always assumed people were more formal back then. But I guess rhyming it made up for the lack of formality...
Someone commented that Cossacks would be even more terrifying if they had been Scottish and someone else commented 'Letter writing is a lost art.' :D
And wasn't the Ottoman Empire Turkey and Hungary and stuff? I don't remember anything either! :D
Oh yeah! Turkey!
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