A long and dramatic axe dance!

WTF?

Found this on a google image search…no explaination but I thought worth sharing to show the sexy side of axe play:)

SONG OF THE OPRISHKI

SONG OF THE OPRISHKI
HAI, Brethren, Oprishki—give me morehoreevka !
On the camp-fire now heap on more wood.
If you tuned then my throat to the sound of
Sopeevka,
I’d sing for as long as I could.
We are safe just as long as the green grass is
growing—
If the forest of leaves be not bare,
If behind the thick bush and green [...]

THE DEATH OF DOBUSH

THE DEATH OF DOBUSH
ALONG the edges of the wooded height
Walks young Dobush;
Lame in one leg, he on his topir leans
And calls his lads
“0, ye Legini, O, my boys !
We’ll council hold
Whom next are we to rob ?
Kooty we must not miss,
Nor overlook Kossiev.
Now sleep, my boys,
Because we rise at dawn;
Dress in a trice, skin postoli [...]

The Death of Janosik

The Death of Janosik
Light upon the mountain-pray, what may be doing? Twelve robust and strapping youngsters rendezvousing, Youngsters hale and handsome, fond of sport and laughter, Never lived their like before and scarce will live hereafter! Falcons of the Tatras, faithful to each other, As if they were offspring of one common mother; [...]