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Updated: June 2, 2025
Did you observe our own knights whom we met at Krakow? Could you conquer Pan Powala of Taczew, Paszko Zlodziej of Biskupice, and Zawisza Czarny, eh? Don't be too rash, but consider the facts." "Rotgier also was a strong man," murmured Zbyszko. "Will there be any work for myself?" asked the Bohemian. But he received no reply, because Macko was thinking about something else.
Who sent you here?" "Pan Zawisza sent us here as a present to the young knight, to be his slaves." "O for God's sake! two men more!" exclaimed Macko, joyfully. "Of what nationality are you?" "We are Turks!" "Turks?" repeated Zbyszko. "I shall have two Turks in my retinue. Have you ever seen Turks?" And having jumped toward them, he began to turn them around and to look at them curiously.
"But fear of the judgment of God...." On this occasion, and for mutual entertainment, they recalled the names of Mazovian and more often of Polish knights, who, either in courtly jousts or hunting, had gained numerous victories over the western knights; above all they mentioned Zawisza of Garbow, with whom no knight of the Christian kingdom could cope.
And he began to ask about the knights whom he had seen at the king's court; about Zawisza, Farurej, Powala of Taczew, about Lis of Targowisko and about all the others; what they were doing; how they amused themselves; in what honest exercises they passed the time?
They said of him that he was among those who could fight with Zawisza, and now he is reduced to a skeleton." "We are accustomed to hear all sorts of things," said the Bohemian, "but nobody would believe it if they were told that Christians had acted thus with a belted knight, whose patron is also Saint Jerzy." "God grant that Zbyszko may at least avenge part of his wrongs.
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