P. 186. Stanzas 19, 20. The boon of being allowed to fight at odds,
rather than be judicially executed, is of very common occurrence in
South-Slavic songs, generally with the nuance that the hero asks to have
the worst horse and the worst weapon. A well-known instance is the
Servian song of Jurišić Janko, Karadžić, II, 319, No 52, and the older
Croat song of Svilojević (treating the same matter), Bogišić, p. 120 No
46. (W. W.)