: Together by Douglas Norman - Tyrol (Austria) Description and travel

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Foreword

Technical Notes

Summary

Canto 1: The Revelation of the Bearslayer

Canto II: Bearslayer Begins His Life as a Hero

Canto IV: The Latvians Suffer Many Hardships

Canto V: The Journey to the Homeland

Canto VI: The Struggle against the Invaders

Glossary of Personal and Place Names

FOREWORD

Most societies seem to have epic heroes and events that define them as they like to see themselves: Even a young society such as Australia has Ned Kelly, Eureka Stockade, and ANZAC. Others have their Robin Hood, Siegfried, Roland, or Davy Crockett. Lacplesis is such a work. Bearslayer is patriotic, brave, strong, tough, loyal, wise, fair, and virtuous, and he loves nature. He embodies the strengths and virtues of the Latvian folk in a legendary age of greatness, before they were subjugated and corrupted by "Strangers".

The poem was important in the growth of Latvian self-awareness As Jazeps Rudzitis, the eminent Latvian folklorist and literary scholar, put it, "There is no other work in Latvian literature whose story has penetrated mass consciousness as deeply or resounded as richly in literature and art as Bearslayer." Thus, it seemed worthwhile to me to make the poem available to people who wish to read it in English, and this volume is the result. It contains the fruits of two years' labour.

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