well-spanned

Updated: May 21, 2025

And the Tsar spoke these words to them: "My dear children, take unto you your darts, gird on your well-spanned bows, and go hence in different directions, and in whatsoever courts your arrows fall, there choose ye your brides!" The elder brother discharged his arrow and it fell into a boyar's court, right in front of the terem of the maidens.

Fanny E. Coe - The Book of Stories for the Story-teller