The girl's death song. The big wedding

In southeastern Estonia and on the Russian side of the Russian border, there is a community of about 10,000 Setuks, who differ from the Estonian majority with their Orthodox religion and ethnographic traditions. The Setuks declared themselves an independent ethnic group a few years ago. The author is illiterate, and at the beginning of the last century, about 150,000 lines of folk poetry were recorded from him. The two epic songs are an ethnographic treasure, and we can glimpse the rich folk poetry of the Setuks in the translation by János Pusztay, a Prima Primissima-awarded linguist professor.