ext_6705 ([identity profile] yay4pikas.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] summer_sparrow 2003-10-22 12:29 am (UTC)

...until I realized that Mongols are teh cool

They are.

But so are the Xiongnu, albeit in a different way.

I have a hug theory about the Huns in Disney's Mulan being Xiongnu, because they call their leader Shan-Yu, and shan-yu was the term for a Xiongnu leader. Bizarrely, the source I found that in was really obscure, so I'm sort of puzzled that Disney managed to pick that term to misuse as a proper name. (Yes, I do also have issues with Mulan's horse being named Khan. It's too much like being a Brit and naming your horse Führer during WWII. Or ever, really.)

*cough*

I think I have lost the remaining scraps of my sanity. Sorry 'bout that.

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