Note 1471 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY (continued 2)

“... inter aquilonem et item orientem Pecenatorum et Falonum, maximam venationum copiam habente, sed vomere ac rastro pene experte campania” (Gesta Frid., I, 31). In Chron., VI, 10, Otto states that “Pecenati et hii qui Falones dicuntur, crudis et immundis carnibus, utpote equinis catinis, usque hodie vescuntur.” “Falones” was the medieval German name for the Komans (see Hofmeister’s edition of the Chronicon, p. 271, note 6). The eleventh-century chronicle of Nestor of Kiev speaks of the Komans as eaters of raw flesh (Zeuss, Die Deutschen und die Nachbarstämme, 1837, p. 744). On the Komans, Petchenegs, and other tribes of the Russian plains in the Middle Ages, see the exhaustive treatise of J. Marquart, Über das Volkstum der Komanen, forming chapter 2 of W. Bang and J. Marquart, Osttürkische Dialektstudien, in: Abhandlungen der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, vol. xiii (N. S.), 1912–1914, pp. 25–238.