[New-Poetry] Mongol Wisdom

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/27/2008 12:08:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
rog3r.day at gmail.com writes:

You  can't trust a poem for 100% historical accuracy."
>
> Sergei  Bodrov, director of "Mongol," on his use of the epic poem, "The
> Secret  History of the Mongols," as source material.


Like those rum commercials for 'The Captian (Morgan)', I'd say  there never 
was
a good historian who didn't have a bit of the poet  in him (or her).
Herodutus to Gibbon to Keegan.
 
Finnegan



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