It was the third year of the war. There were no adult healthy men in the village, and therefore the brigadier sent my older brother Sadyk’s wife, Jamila, to a purely masculine job –
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One of the visiting princes fell in love with the daughter of the king – Isolde. The father willingly gave his consent to the marriage of his daughter. The kingdom began to prepare for
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Adam Mickiewicz Conrad Wallenrod In the prosaic preface to the poem, the author notes that he describes those ancient times when the pagan Lithuanians fought with their main enemy, the Teutonic Order, which subdued
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