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.

3 3 Dream To light up with a sulphur match is no better than with an ember. No doubt, for that woman’s sake, I would have lived my whole life by the fire! Not only would I have gone out hunting, and taken gifts w ith traps and snares, and dammed Lotta River w ith my own unpublished poems. But when aging as usual, I’ll suddenly hear the call o f my dear ancestors, I’ll sink down to the banya, and I’ll swelter in order to say, as before, I am ready!

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