Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians

by Woislav M. Petrovitch; Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

In the cradle, slumbering, lay an infant:

On its throat the white hand of its mother:

And that hand a golden knife was holding.

She wrung the neck of Paul’s grey falcon

III. The Abduction of the Beautiful Iconia

Golden wine drinks Theodore of Stalatch[6]

In his Castle Stalatch, on Morava;

Pours him out the wine his aged mother.