{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/hbs/hbs16.htm","path":"neu/hbs/hbs16.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/hbs/hbs16.htm","text":"M\u00cdLITSA the ts\u00e1ritsa went walking up and down\nBelow the wall of Kr\u00fashevats and the ramp of the white town,\nAnd also V\u00fakosava and Mara, her daughters dear,\nWhen Vl\u00e1deta, the vo\u00fdvoda, on a charger brown drew near.\nSweated that steed had been, indeed, and the white foam stained his side.\n\u201cGod aid thee, marshal of the king!\u201d Queen M\u00edlitsa she cried;\n\u201cWhy sweats the stallion? Hast thou not come from K\u00f3sovo this day?\nSawest thou not my lord and thine?\u201d\nAnd Vl\u00e1deta did say:\n\u201cGod aid me, Ts\u00e1ritsa M\u00edlitsa! I come from K\u00f3sovo.\nI saw not the tsar, but his white steed the Turks drove to and fro,\nUp and down by K\u00f3sovo, and I dread that the tsar is slain.\u201d\nWhen Queen M\u00edlitsa had heard it, on her cheeks the tears did rain,\nAnd anew she asketh the vo\u00fdvoda:\n\u201cWhat tidings of the tsar?\nSawest thou Yug\u2019s nine children at K\u00f3sovo that are;\n\u201cI rode by level K\u00f3sovo, and I saw them in that tide\u2014\nYug and his nine strong children at K\u00f3sovo have I seen.\nTheir arms were red to the shoulders, and red were the sabers keen;\nWeary were their arms at K\u00f3sovo with cutting the Moslems down.\u201d\nYet again unto the vo\u00fdvoda the ts\u00e1ritsa spake on:\n\u201cSawest thou Milosh and Br\u00e1nkovich, my daughters\u2019 lords that are?\u201d\nVl\u00e1deta answered:\n\u201cAt K\u00f3sovo, in the center of the war,\nThere saw I Milosh \u00d3bilich that leaned on his broken spear;\nHe is dead ere now, for the Moslems pressed on him very near.\nVuk Br\u00e1nkovich I saw not. Never may sun him see!\nThat same betrayed Tsar Lazar, the lord of thee and me.\u201d","title":"TS\u00c1RITSA M\u00cdLITSA AND VL\u00c1DETA THE VO\u00ddVODA","type":"page"}