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 The battle which this ballad records was fought in 1821, and the internal marks of antiquity show that this poem cannot be of a much later date.

The next piece is intitled, and is a sort of historico-poetical chronicle of the great combat between the Christians and the Tatars, which took place in the 13th century.

tell a tale of fame and glory,

Tale of mighty strife and fiercest battle:

Listen now—collect your scatter'd senses;

Listen now—and hear the wond'rous story.

In the land where Olmütz rises proudly,

Towers a mountain—not a high nor bold one—

But the unaspiring hill, Hostaynow,

With its wond'rous image of God’s mother.

Long our land a quiet peace enjoying,

Prosper'd in the calm of wealth and comfort,

But a storm was gathering in the orient,

All about the Tatar monarch's daughter;