Roman Auxiliary Cavalryman - Osprey
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Added by: elcortez | Karma: 407.08 | Non-Fiction | 16 July 2008 |
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This book details the many roles of the Roman auxiliary cavalryman, including reconnaissance, communication and policing duties, as well as in battle.
Drawn from a wide range of warlike peoples throughout the provinces, especially on the fringes of the empire, auxiliaries were generally not citizens of the Roman empire. |
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Polish Fairy Tales
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Added by: jaybeere | Karma: 320.01 | Coursebooks | 21 August 2007 |
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Polish Fairy Tales
by A. J. Gliński
translated by Maude Ashurst Biggs; illustrated by Cecile Walton
(Rare Book Collection)
The frog princess.--Princess Miranda and Prince Hero.--The eagles.--The whirlwind.--The good
ferryman and the water nymphs.--The princess of the Brazen Mountain.--The bear in the forest hut
These are selections from a large collection made by A. J. Gliński, printed at Wilna in 1862. These
fairy tales come from a far past and may even date from primitive Aryan times. They represent the
folklore current among the peasantry of the Eastern provinces of Poland, and also in those
provinces usually known as White Russia.
They were set down by Gliński just as they were related to him by the peasants. In the translation it was of course necessary to shorten them considerably; the continual
repetition — however quaint and fascinating in the original—cannot easily be reproduced. Portions,
too, are often told in rhyme, or in a species of rhyming prose that we associate with the ancient
ballad. The obvious likenesses between these and the folklore of Germany, the Celtic nations, or to
the Indian fairytales, will strike every reader.
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Tags: Gli324ski, These, folklore, provinces, Fairy |