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Marya Morevna. Page [203]. (Part viii. p. 98.)

Morevna means “daughter of the sea.”

This is a very fine tale, in which the ancient characters are well preserved. Koshchéi Without-Death, however, has his death with him this time.

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Yelena the Wise. Page [218]. (Part vii. p. 304.)

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The Seven Simeons, Full Brothers. Page [228]. (Part i. p. 370.)

The Simeons remind us at once of the brothers in “Fin MacCumhail, the Seven Brothers, and the King of France.” See “Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland.”

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