Note 051
In hac magna civitate, quae est caput regni,
plus trecentae ecclesiae habentur et nundinae octo, populi
etiam ignota manus
(Eggehardus ad A.D. 1018, apud Bayer,tom. ix. p. 412.)
He likewise quotes (tom. x. p. 397) the
words of the Saxon annalist, Cujus (Russiae) metropolis est
Chive, aemula sceptri Constantinopolitani, quae est
clarissimum decus Graeciae. The fame of Kiow, especially in
the xith century, had reached the German and Arabian
geographers.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 55