Excerpt from Manuscript of the Queen's Court: A Collection of Old Bohemian Lyrico-Epic Songs, With Other Ancient Bohemian Poems The poet then goes on to describe the ga thering together of the heroes by the brothers. Zaboj blesses the host. Their movements are all' recorded, and at every step the hard in troduces his word of promise, of counsel, or of vengeance. Zaboj himself takes a part in the fight, his blows are, said to fall in front of the fight like a hailstorm. There is a for cible description of the long-enduring ...
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Excerpt from Manuscript of the Queen's Court: A Collection of Old Bohemian Lyrico-Epic Songs, With Other Ancient Bohemian Poems The poet then goes on to describe the ga thering together of the heroes by the brothers. Zaboj blesses the host. Their movements are all' recorded, and at every step the hard in troduces his word of promise, of counsel, or of vengeance. Zaboj himself takes a part in the fight, his blows are, said to fall in front of the fight like a hailstorm. There is a for cible description of the long-enduring battle and the progress of it. Zaboj is represented as endowed with super - human strength, able to fell a tree with a single stroke of his battle axe, destroying thirty enemies with his own hand, piercing his foes through at a distance of five fathoms, and following them without his shield with sword in hand a very grey hound in pursuit, a lynx in perception; yet in the midst of all preserving a great self possession, and exercising wonderful great mindedness towards the fallen. The ballad concludes with this song of the hard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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