Croatian Tales of Long Ago. Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic

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       Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic

      Croatian Tales of Long Ago

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664110015

Table of Contents

       How Quest Sought the Truth

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       Fisherman Plunk and His Wife

       I

       II

       III

       Reygoch

       I

       II

       Bridesman Sun and Bride Bridekins

       Stribor’s Forest

       I

       II

       III

       Little Brother Primrose and Sister Lavender

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

       XII

       XIII

       XIV

       XV

       XVI

       XVII

       XVIII

       XIX

       Notes Interpretation of Names, Etc.

       How Quest Sought the Truth.

       Fisherman Plunk and his Wife.

       Reygoch.

       Bridesman Sun and Bride Bridekins.

       Stribor’s Forest.

       Little Brother Primrose and Sister Lavender.

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      BY

      VLADIMIR KIRIN

      How Quest Sought the Truth

How Quest Sought the Truth

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I

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      ONCE upon a time very long ago there lived an old man in a glade in the midst of an ancient forest. His name was Witting, and he lived there with his three grandsons. Now this old man was all alone in the world save for these three grandsons, and he had been father and mother to them from the time when they were quite little. But now they were full-grown lads, so tall that they came up to their grandfather’s shoulder, and even taller. Their names were Bluster, Careful and Quest.

      One spring morning old Witting got up early, before the sun had risen, called his three grandsons and told them to go into the wood