Note 546 — Chapter XVII · GOVERNMENT IN THE HEROIC AGE.
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We may compare Ibn Fadhlan's account of the king of the (Scandinavian) Russians, who never put his foot to the ground. His duties also were discharged by a viceroy. Cf. Frähn, Ibn Foszlan's und anderer Araber Berichte über die Russen älterer Zeit, pp. 21, 23.