On the High Uplands Sagas, Songs, Tales and Legends of the Carpathians by Stanislaw Vincenz
….One day young Matijko of Kryworiwnia, a son of Foka’s friend Fedore, turned up in Sziget for the market. He was not a lad, he was a robust young beech-tree. He always spent his summers in the forest below Czarnohora. In [...]
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From: On the High Uplands
Sagas, Songs, Tales and Legends of the Carpathians
by Stanislaw Vincenz
Dancing around Dmytryk
pg 120
They danced the festive dance with axes. The old, grey-headed and shaggy-haired delegates danced, the young, curly-headed delegates danced. And as they danced they sang very ancient songs and carols. Only Dmytryk stood in the midst of them, brandishing [...]
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