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Tzar Solomon and Tzaritza Solomonida
AMONG the traditions common to all Aryan races,
the quest of a bride in a marvellous ship, with
the aid of wondrous song or music, is one of the
most widely disseminated. This legend seems to have
reached the Russians through the medium of books,
as it is recorded in some of the Chronicles, though not
the most ancient. It received its present poetical form
from the people, and offers a very rare and noteworthy
example of a poem purely popular in style, though
derived from foreign and literary sources.
In one version, Tzar Vasily lives in Novgorod, and
Solomon in Tzargrad (Constantinople).
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