Fitti nel limo dicon; ‘Tristi fummo.
Nel dolce mondo che dal sol s’allegra....
Or c’attristiam’ nella belletta negra.
Footnote 25:
This is a prose version of a _bylína_: Alyósha Popóvich is one of the
Kíev cycle.
Footnote 26:
The strong man, the Serpent’s son.
Footnote 27:
Hut.
Footnote 28:
_Koról’_ king: hence princess.
Footnote 29:
I have taken this story as it stands. There are obvious gaps I have
not ventured to fill up.
Footnote 30:
A mythical city, very probably derived from Θύλε.
Footnote 31:
Earls.
Footnote 32:
Diminutive of Iván; so too Ványa.
Footnote 33:
Hut.
Footnote 34:
A bold flier.
Footnote 35:
Bandy-legged.
Footnote 36:
Sitting behind the stove.
Footnote 37:
_Ídolishche_, i.e. Big idol.
Footnote 38:
Θεόφιλος.
Footnote 39:
An equivalent to the Bába Yagá.
Footnote 40:
Father.
Footnote 41:
Hut.
Footnote 42:
Hut.
Footnote 43:
Hut.
Footnote 44:
Hut.
Footnote 45:
A mock patronymic for the Bull.
Footnote 46:
Hut.
Footnote 47:
_v._ note to p. 125.
Footnote 48:
A great forest in Central Russia, once impenetrable and always
legendary.
Footnote 49:
Grandmother.
Footnote 50:
Father.
Footnote 51:
Father.
Footnote 52:
Hut.
Footnote 53:
Hut.
Footnote 54:
Hut.
Footnote 55:
Shovels are used to insert loaves and pots deep into the oven.
Footnote 56:
“_n_” and “_k_” to be sounded distinct as in _pin-case_.
Footnote 57:
Uncle: term of affection.
Footnote 58:
Princesses.
Footnote 59:
Earls.
Footnote 60:
Hut.
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