Thanks @kotturinn I'm glad you enjoyed this poem. I actually thought of you after I wrote it knowing you're of Russian origin, I hope I'm remembering that right? But I wondered if you had heard of the legend of Danko before? This week just gone was the first I had come across it myself and I really liked the dark Transylvanian/Moldovan feel of it :-)
I read through the post and I saw that Gorky wrote about Danko in one of his stories, so that inspired me to go read The Old Woman Izergil, the name is very familiar and I almost feel like I had read that before, when I was in school, but I don't recall for sure haha.
There's another legend Izergil tells you and that one about Larra, who was son of an eagle, I thought it was pretty crazy.
That sounds awesome and I am currently looking on google for an english translation of the full book so that I can make another epic (long-ass) poem about Larra. I've drawn a blank so far but I shall get my full research head on in a bit ;-) Thanks for drawing my attention to this further Izergil legend. Inspiration is the food of the writer and you have just gifted the inspiration equivalent of a nice slice of chocolate cake, thanks for the cake Kotturinn :-)
P.s. here is the Youtube reading of Danko that helped me really visualize the story when I was writing the poem:
Nice :) happy to know you found it interesting enough to dig further. By the way, the legend of Larra is the first one Izergil tells, the guy was a piece of shit hahaha.
This is funny how the narration is done by an old lady in the video, you can also imagine sitting next to the old Izergil listening to her stories!
Thanks @kotturinn I'm glad you enjoyed this poem. I actually thought of you after I wrote it knowing you're of Russian origin, I hope I'm remembering that right? But I wondered if you had heard of the legend of Danko before? This week just gone was the first I had come across it myself and I really liked the dark Transylvanian/Moldovan feel of it :-)
I read through the post and I saw that Gorky wrote about Danko in one of his stories, so that inspired me to go read The Old Woman Izergil, the name is very familiar and I almost feel like I had read that before, when I was in school, but I don't recall for sure haha.
There's another legend Izergil tells you and that one about Larra, who was son of an eagle, I thought it was pretty crazy.
That sounds awesome and I am currently looking on google for an english translation of the full book so that I can make another epic (long-ass) poem about Larra. I've drawn a blank so far but I shall get my full research head on in a bit ;-) Thanks for drawing my attention to this further Izergil legend. Inspiration is the food of the writer and you have just gifted the inspiration equivalent of a nice slice of chocolate cake, thanks for the cake Kotturinn :-)
P.s. here is the Youtube reading of Danko that helped me really visualize the story when I was writing the poem:
Nice :) happy to know you found it interesting enough to dig further. By the way, the legend of Larra is the first one Izergil tells, the guy was a piece of shit hahaha.
This is funny how the narration is done by an old lady in the video, you can also imagine sitting next to the old Izergil listening to her stories!