The Shade of the Balkans: Being a Collection of Bulgarian Folksongs And Proverbs
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Here then is the best Roumanian version : The mother had nine sons and the tenth (child) was the beautiful Bojitzat.* There came suitors from a foreign kingdom to where the Djora flows. The mother, like all mothers, did not wish to marry her, neither in the village, nor in the kingdom, nor by the river Djora. Her brother Constantine, he who ">= A Bulgarian name derived from Bog (God). =36 APPENDIX wore clothes of silk, said to the mother : " Give, mother, Bojitza. If she is so dear to you we sh...all be able to ride there swiftly on the black (horse). Give her raiment and be untroubled." The mother listened to him and gave Bojitza into the kingdom ot Italy whence a handsome youth had come with shining eyes, the brother of the sun, the friend of the stars, the sweet cousin of the moon, and called the brother of the forest. Not one year had passed when the Plague came to the village. She took away the nine little birds, Bojitza's brothers. She devoured all the nine. Then the mother was stricken and she moaned from her heart ; she poured the tears from her eyes and with her tongue she spoke : " Constantine, Constantine, little mother's child!
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