From various reading through the years I understand that up to this day, the Caspian sea is often named "the Khazar sea" in some languages and maps: Persian, Azerbiajani, Turkmen and Turkish. The very coinage of such a term, would imply, in my humble opinion, that the Khazars were a naval power i...

Stories of changelings and faeries in Scandinavia and western Europe are often regarded by modern scholars as a "just so" story that ancient peoples used to try and explain autism. The traits that folklore often lists as indicative of being a changeling or a faerie in disguise often read like a l...