>
> What the heck is a "pan"?
>
> I've been reading some 17th-century Ukrainian Cossack
> folklore, and it's all about how "we gloriously
> followed our Hetman Chmelnitsky and slaughtered many
> and sundry evil Polish Pans and Jews with our mighty
> Cossack hearts." It reads kind of like an anti-Semitic
> version of the Iliad.
>
> Anyway, what exactly was a Pan? Were they nobles or
> government tax collectors or what?
>
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