burtenikas

Updated: February 21, 2026

Here and there, far away from the camp-fires of Skirwoilla, the sound of a whistle or fife was heard, or the suppressed notes of the song of the burtenikas, to which the soldiers listened with bent heads and eyes fixed on the glowing fire.

Henryk Sienkiewicz - The Knights of the Cross: or, Krzyzacy