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QUEEN’S COURT MANUSCRIPT.
JAROSLAW.[1]
I’ll tell you a glorious tale
Of struggles and of fight;
Come, listen, and collect yourselves,
To hear the deeds of might!
Far in the land where Olmütz reigns,
Rises a hill, not high;
’Tis Hostajnow; God’s Mother there
Works marvels wondrously.
- ↑ This poem, intituled in the Queen’s Court Manuscript, “Of the great wars of the Christians with the Tatars,” relates to the historical victory gained by Jaroslaw Sternberg over the Tatars, near Olmütz, through which he delivered the whole of Moravia from them. Kublay Khan, here mentioned, reigned from 1259 to 1294, whence we may infer that the poem was probably first composed towards the end of the thirteenth century, and must also consider it as the latest in the collection. This appears equally from the legend of the Tatar Princess, which is found about the same date in a German legend of St. Hedwiga. A further account is contained in “Der Mongolen Einfall im Jahre 1241, von Fr. Palacky, Prag. 1842.”
