TIVERTSI

The 'თე' story, and, especially, the 'Tibareni' spin-off gives us a long-waited chance to decipher the mysterious 'East Slav' tribe of 'Tivertsi' which was mentioned in Primary Chronicle (Povist vreminnykh lit). With 'te-' prefix (which we have a right to consider an article) taken off we are left with... Ivertsi! Didn't we tell you that the ancient Ukrainians were Kartvelians? By the way, they lived were Herodotus had placed Alazoni 1000 years before the times depicted by the Primary Chronicle.