Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 46/@comment-13714183-20140715190729/@comment-5264252-20140716002842

Obviously you know nothing about Ivan the Terrible if you think he was named that for actually being terrible. :P

"The English word terrible is usually used to translate the Russian word grozny in Ivan's nickname, but the modern English usage of terrible, with a pejorative connotation of bad or evil, does not precisely represent the intended meaning. The meaning of grozny is closer to the original usage of terrible—inspiring fear or terror, dangerous (as in Old English in one's danger), formidable or threatening, tough, strict, authoritative. V. Dal defines grozny specifically in archaic usage and as an epithet for tsars: "courageous, magnificent, magisterial, and keeping enemies in fear, but people in obedience". Other translations were also suggested by modern scholars."