On account of the birth of the hero,

The young Volkh Vseslávevich:

The fish went into the depth of the sea,

The birds flew high into the clouds,

The aurochses and stags went beyond the mountains,

The hares and foxes into the woods,

The wolves and bears into the pine-forests,

The sables and martens upon the isles.

Volkh was old an hour and a half,

And Volkh spoke, like peals of thunder: