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. ↩