Бажанов, А. Стихи и поэмы о саамском крае = Verses & poems on the Saami land / Аскольд Бажанов ; English translation by Naomi Caffee ; with an essay by Johanna Domokos. - Berlin : Nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-Universitat, 2009. - 205 с. : ил., портр.

1 5 The Geese The geese bid farewell to the tundra with heavy-hearted cries. For them it w ill be very difficult, no, it is not for them to bask under an African sky, it is for them to dream of the North with its snow and May showers, with the caress of endless swamps, with the noise o f mountain rivulets. The North, extreme though it may be, teaches the soul to be proud. Here are the lifelong moorings of everyone who is familiar w ith the waves. It is here that the birds’ lives begin, where the Saami reside!