Дракула / Dracula

Here, in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Wodin game them, which their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe, aye, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the werewolves themselves had come. Here, too, when they came, they found the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame, till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated with the devils in the desert.

Fools, fools! What devil or what witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?’ He held up his arms. �Is it a wonder that we were a conquering race, that we were proud, that when the Magyar, the Lombard, the Avar, the Bulgar, or the Turk poured his thousands on our frontiers, we drove them back? Is it strange that when Arpad and his legions swept through the Hungarian fatherland he found us here when he reached the frontier, that the Honfoglalas[4 - The Honfoglalas – венгерское завоевание или «обретение родины», приведшее к тому, что венгры осели в Центральной Европе (IX–X вв. )] was completed there? And when the Hungarian flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were claimed as kindred by the victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkeyland. Aye, and more than that, endless duty of the frontier guard, for as the Turks say, �water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.’ Who more gladly than we throughout the Four Nations received the �bloody sword,’ or at its warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King? When was redeemed that great shame of my nation, the shame of Cassova,[5 - Он имеет в виду победу турок в битве на Косовом поле в 1389 г. , в ходе которой Моравская Сербия сражалась с вторгшимися войсками Османской империи.] when the flags of the Wallach and the Magyar went down beneath the Crescent?[6 - The Crescent – полумесяц, символ ислама и Османской империи.