Steven Runciman: „That Malamir existed we know, not only from inscriptions, but also from the account given by Theophylact of Ochrida, the only historian to attempt a connected account of the reigns and relationships of the Khans of Krum’s family; he clearly had access to some older source now lost. He says that Omortag had three sons, Enravotas, Zvenitzes, and Malamir (Μαλλομηρός); Malamir succeeded his father, and was succeeded by his nephew, the son of Zvenitzes; a few lines below this second item he speaks of the Bulgarian Khan as ‘ ὀριθὴς Βωρίσης ’² — a phrase that has usually been emended as ‘ ὁ ῥηθεὶς Βωρίσης. ’ Malamir is also mentioned as Baldimer or Vladimir in the account given of the exiles of Adrianople by the Logothete: which a few lines below suddenly mentions Michael (Boris) as Khan. But all the Logothete’s information is misty; Baldimer is called the father of Symeon.³

 

² Theophylact, Historia XV. Martyrum, pp. 193, 197.

³ Leo Grammaticus, pp. 231-2 (Βαλδίμερ): Logothete (Slavonic version), pp. 101–2 (Vladimir).”

 

(A History of the First Bulgarian Empire; G. Bell & Sons, London 1930, 293. o.)

 

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Omeljan Pritsak rámutat, hogy a hunokat Európába vezető Balamir nagykirálynak a neve ötféleképpen őrződött meg Jordanesnél (XIV, 130 és XLVIII, 248–49): Balaber, Balamber, Balambyr, Balamur és Balamir.

 

Nyilvánvaló tehát, hogy a -mir csak a szlávok által kedveltebb változata a személynevekben gyakran előforduló végződésnek.