Re: Odp: Praeneste fibula

Piotr wrote

> I first read aboutr "Slovo" being possibly a hoax in a rather old

historical grammar of the Slavic Languages published in England (it was
so long ago that I'm not even sure who the author was; I think his name
was Mackenzie, if you want names).

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> Most of those who doubted the authenticity of "Slovo" are now dead,

I suppose (not because of Igor's curse but because more recent
scholarship has undermined the hoax theory). This is also what the
Encyclopaedia Britannica seems to imply:

>
> http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,117450+2,00.html

It has fared rather better then than the great Scottish linguistic
forgery the "Tales of Ossian" which was supposed to tell of Caracul
Lord of the World (the Agricola campaign by the Romans against the
Caladonians). I wonder if McKenzie had any connection to MacPherson ;-)

John