Re: [Cz-L] Hoverla ,Prut - the substantial story.

A nice story and wonderful poem !
Thank you
Sylvie

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> Le 21 oct. 2013 à 10:59, HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> a écrit :
>
> Legend
> In one village lived a boy who was called Prut. One time he
> worked for so long that by the evening decided simply to stay overnight in
> the mountains. He found a big pine tree and situated underneath it. During
> his sleep he saw a wonderful dream as to him came very beautiful girl all in
> green. The girl was stroked his hair and sang a song. But as the boy stretch
> towards her hand she disappeared right away. He woke up, but no one was
> around. He only noticed on a branch a green ribbon. That girl fell into his
> soul and he decided to find her.
>
> The next evening he again laid under the same pine tree, but did not sleep.
> As the darkness fell he saw that from under the ground appeared that girl
> and went straight to that place where Prut hid. As she neared the tree the
> boy jumped out and hugged her. He asked her what her name was. She at first
> looked at him in fright, but then smiled and said: "Hoverla". After that
> night Prut already almost never was seen in the village. All the time he
> spent in the mountains. They fell in love with each other.
>
>
> However Hoverla was a daughter of the mountain Tsar and therefore she could
> not come down from the mountains among people. Once her father learned of
> her love, he cursed her. She could not live any longer without her love and
> jumped down from a high cliff. Immediately rose terrible wind that destroyed
> everything in its path. The next morning once again appeared the sun and
> people saw that in place of a valley now appeared a big mountain. For a long
> time Prut sought Hoverla. He ran onto the mountain and heard her voice. He
> never returned to people. Since then flowed down a mountain river, laying a
> path between rocks. And people named the river Prut, and the mountain
> Hoverla.
>
> Here is the story much shorter :
>
> Prut dreams of girl in green,
> Hoverla was a mountain queen,
> Her father was a mountain Tsar.
> Prut became river,
> She became mountain,
>
> Hardy
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