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422 ALBERT B. LORDbyliny have points of comparison with the same theme in the SouthSlavic tradition, as shown in passages from the collections of Gil'-ferding and of Rybnikov. The first example is from Gil'ferding: 19Седлае, уздае добра коня:На коня положил он войлочки,На войлочки клал он потеси,На потеси седелышко черкаское,Подвязывал двенадцать потесей,Подвязывал шелками муханьскими,Не для ради красы басы угожества,Для ради закрепы богатырскоей.Пряжки клал меди казанскоей,Стремянки железа булатнаго./Не saddles, bridles his good horse,On the horse he placed blankets,On the blankets he put girths,On the girths the Cherkassian saddle,He bound on the twelve girths.He bound them with silkNot for the sake of beauty orpleasant adornment,But for chivalric support.He put on buckles of Kazan copper,Stirrups of damask steel./Here is a short form of the same theme: 20Седлали уздали добрых коней,На коней клали попутники,На попутники клали наметники,На наметники седелышка черкасский,/They saddled, bridled their goodhorses,On the horses they put blankets,On the blankets they put straps,On the straps the Cherkassian saddles,/A somewhat longer form is found in Rybnikov's collection: 21Седлалъ добра коня богатырскаго,Заседлывалъ коня, улаживалъ,Подкладалъ онъ потничекъ шелковенькій,Покладалъ на потничекъ седелышкоЧеркасское,Подтянулъ подпружики шелковыя,Полагалъ стремяночки железа булатняго.Пряжечки полагалъ чиста золота,/Не saddled his good knightly horse,He saddled the horse, caparisoned it,He put on it a silken sweat blanket,On the sweat blanket he put theCherkassian saddle,He tightened the silken girths.He put on the stirrups of damasksteel,He placed buckles of pure gold,19Oneiskie byliny, 2: 407-^08, lines 127-136.20Oneiskie byliny, 2: 416, lines 63-66.21P. N. Rybnikov, Pesni, 2nd ed., by A. E. Gruźinskij, 3 vols. (Moscow,19О9-19Щ, 1: 39-40, Unes 155-66.