--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Michael J Smith <lookwhoscross-
eyednow@...> wrote:
>
> The Medes and Persians seem to have been a little more on the
> dark side, though the Alans and I think maybe the Sarmatians
> were mentioned as being blond.
Ammianus Marcellinus wrote (xxxi 21) "Proceri autem Halani
paene sunt omnes et pulchri, crinibus mediocriter flavis,
oculorum temperata torvitate terribiles et armorum levitate
veloces, . . ."
"Almost all the Alans are well-built and handsome; their
hair is some-what blond (lit. "golden-yellow, gold-coloured,
yellow"); they inspire fear with their terrible eyes, and are
very mobile because of the lightness of their armaments, . . ."
David