> -----Original Message----- > From: Casey Rousseau [mailto:casey at trinityhartford.org] > Sent: Tuesday, 2002 October 15 10:20 > To: Dragaera > Subject: RE: Questions about genealogy & stuff > For that matter, there is no evidence that in fact it is > _Vlad_ who misspelled those names, is there? I mean, even > though most of the stories are told in first person, does > Vlad-as-narrator ever refer to _writing_ down the account > that we are reading? There is of course one book that > explicitly depicts Vlad giving the story orally, so perhaps > the error (if there is one) belongs to an ignorant transcriptionist. Oh definitely. Or any number of similar failure points along the way >from the oral comments to the final book form (editors, typesetters, etc. etc.)