Stelle [a. 889] Scythia, ut aiunt, in orie...; (Chronicon (Regino abbatis Prumiensis) (900 - 908), Regino of Prüm, Chronicon, ed. by Friedrich Kurze, MGH: SS rer. Germ. in us. schol. separatim editi, 50 (Hanover: Hahn, 1890), p. 131-132; translation: Macle [5663]

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Text Chronicon (Regino abbatis Prumiensis) (900 - 908) Regino of Prüm
Quotation [a. 889] Scythia, ut aiunt, in oriente extensa incluzditur ab uno latere Ponto, ab altero montibus Ripheis, a tergo Asia et Ithasi flumine. patet autem multum in longitudinem et latitudinem. Hominibus hanc inhabitantibus inter se nulli fines; perraro enim agrum exercent, nec domus illis ulla aut tectum vel sedes est, armenta et pecora semper pascentibus et per incultas solitudines errare solitis. Uxores libersoque secum in plaustris vehunt; coriis imbrium hiemisque causa tectis pro domibus utuntur. Nullum scelus apud eos furto gravius, quippe sine tecti munimento pecora et armenta alimentaque habentibus quid inter silvas superesset, si furari liceret? Aurum et argentum non perine ut religqui morales appetunt, venationum et piscationum exercitiis inserviunt, lacte et melle vescuntur. Lanae his usus ac vestium ignotus, et quamquam continuis frigoribus afficiantur, pellibus tantum ferinis ac murinis induuntur. Imperium Asiae ter quaesivere, ipsi perpetuo ab alieno imperio aut inacti aut invicti mansere. Nec virorum magis quam feminarum virtutibus clsruere, quippe cum ipsi Parthos Bactrianosque, feminae autem eorum Amazonum regna condiderint, prorsus ut res gestas virorum mulierumque considerantibus incertum sid, uter apud eos sexus illustrior fuerit. Darium, regem Persarum, turpi ab Scythia summoverunt fuga, Cyrum cum omni exercitu trucidaverunt; Alexandri Magni ducem Sopyriona pari ratione cum universis copiis deleverunt; Romanorum audiere, non sensere arma. Laboribus et bellis asperi, vires corporum inmensae.
Translation Scythia, so they say, stretches to the east and is enclosed on one side by Pontus, on another by the Riphean montains, and at the back by Asia and the River Ithasis. In both length and breadth it is an extensive land. The people who live there have no frontiers between themselves. They very rarely engage in agriculture, and they have no houses or shelters or residences; for they constantrly pasture their cattle and flocks and are accustomed to roaming the uncultivated wilderness. They transport their wives and children with them in wagons which they use as houses by covering them with hides as protection against the rain and cold of winter. No crime is for them more serious than theft since, as they have no buildings to protect their cattle, sheep and food, what would be left among the forests if theft were allowed? They know nothing about the uses of wool and clothing and although they are constantly afflicted by the cold they wear only the skins of wild animals and rodents. The Scythians tried to conquer Asia three times, while they themselvesalways remained untouched and unconquered by foreign powers. The feats of the women were no less famous than those of the men, for while the mean founded the Parthiam and Bactrian kingdoms, their women established the Amazonian kingdom, so that in considering the deeds of the men and the women it is hard to decide which of the two sexes is more illustrious among them. They drove the persian king Darius from Scythia in shameful flight, and butchered Cyrus with his entire army. In the same way they annihilated Alexander the Great's general Sopyrion with all his forces. They had heard about the arms of Rome, but not felt them. Hardened by war and by hard work, they have immensely strong bodies.
Quotation source Regino of Prüm, Chronicon, ed. by Friedrich Kurze, MGH: SS rer. Germ. in us. schol. separatim editi, 50 (Hanover: Hahn, 1890), p. 131-132; translation: Maclean, pp.
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