The existing nábrók is probably a modern reconstruction, with little evidence for the original

Returning to the nábrók, NB: the surviving specimen is most likely a modern fabrication, merely reconstructing the legend. They are kept in a private museum, and since it is thanks to them that we learnt of it at all, they evidently do their work tolerably well. Evidence for the trousers themselves is very slight, and rather indirect. Well, even if it is a hoax, it is a thoroughly ghastly one. Far creepier than, say, those Icelandic spells for the destruction of an enemy's livestock.

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

The existing nábrók is probably a modern reconstruction, with little evidence for the original

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s