Bearslayer : $b A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic versePumpurs, Andrejs

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Bearslayer : $b A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse

Name: Bearslayer : $b A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse
Author: Pumpurs, Andrejs

Pumpurs, Andrejs

Epic literature, Latvian -- Adaptations; Epic poetry

Witch (Old Witch):             A  crone who had authority  over  the younger
                               witches in the Devil's Pit. She was the mother
                               of the Three-, Six- and  Nine-Headed  Demons
                               on the Enchanted Isle.

Ziemelis [Zee-em-ell-is]:      The North Wind; hostile to human beings.

Zunda [Zuhn-da]:               Narrow straits between the Estonian island of
                               Saaremaa and the Kurzeme Peninsula (i.e., on
                               the Estonia-Latvia border).

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Bearslayer : $b A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic versePumpurs, Andrejs

General

Bearslayer : $b A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse

Pumpurs, Andrejs

Epic literature, Latvian -- Adaptations; Epic poetry

Witch (Old Witch):             A  crone who had authority  over  the younger
                               witches in the Devil's Pit. She was the mother
                               of the Three-, Six- and  Nine-Headed  Demons
                               on the Enchanted Isle.

Ziemelis [Zee-em-ell-is]:      The North Wind; hostile to human beings.

Zunda [Zuhn-da]:               Narrow straits between the Estonian island of
                               Saaremaa and the Kurzeme Peninsula (i.e., on
                               the Estonia-Latvia border).

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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