Endnotes

1. With Fire and Sword, chapter I. ↩

2. The bishop who visited Zagloba at Ketling’s house, see chapter XVI. ↩

3. A celebrated bishop of Krakow, famous for ambition and success. ↩

4. A diminutive of endearment for Anna. Anusia is another form. ↩

5. One of the chiefs of a confederacy formed against the king, Yan Kazimir, by soldiers who had not received their pay. ↩

6. The story in Poland is that storks bring all the infants to the country. ↩

7. This refers to the axelike form of the numeral 7. ↩

8. Diminutive of Barbara. ↩

9. Diminutive of Krystina, or Christiana. ↩

10. Drohoyovski is Parma Krysia’s family name. ↩

11. A diminutive of Anna, expressing endearment. ↩

12. To place a watermelon in the carriage of a suitor was one way of refusing him. ↩

13. “Kot” means “cat,” hence Basia’s exclamations are, “Scot, Scot! cat, cat!” ↩

14. In Polish, “I love” is one word, “Kocham.” ↩

15. In the original this forms a rhymed couplet. ↩

16. That is let me kiss you. ↩

17. Injured his head. ↩

18. The Tsar’s city⁠—Constantinople. ↩

19. Zagloba refers here to Pavel Sapyeha, voevoda of Vilna, and grand hetman of Lithuania. ↩

20. Poland. ↩

21. God is merciful! God is merciful. ↩

22. The territory governed by a pasha, in this case the lands of the Cossacks. ↩

23. The Commonwealth. ↩

24. That means as tall as a stove. The tile or porcelain stores of eastern Europe are very high. ↩

25. A barber in that age and in those regions took the place of a surgeon usually. ↩

26. Each nearly equal to five English miles. ↩

27. A hot drink made of gorailka, honey, and spices. ↩

28. Motovidlo’s words are Russian in the original. ↩

29. See note after introduction. ↩

30. Hero. ↩

31. More likely Yan Zisca, the great leader of the Hussites. ↩