Aszparuh Page #4

515 years has the Dulo clan

ruled over its people!

How many lands have heard

the clatter of our horses?

How many enemies have known

the scream of our arrows?

Can the Bulgars

have forgotten

what they owe to the last

descendant of the great clan?

When my dearest sacrifice was asked,

for our unity and welfare,

I ripped it from my heart!

I gave it to you!

When you fought with hunger, frost,

plague, I fought beside you!

When you were burying your dead,

I digged in the frozen land as well!

Tell me! What have I not done

together with you? For you!

You, who feel love for your

clans, herds and children,

tell me, does yuvigi Asparuh have

his own clan, herds and children?

Enough, yuvigi! The Bulgars know

what they owe to their khan!

Kanasubigi Asparuh led you out

of doom and into salvation!

You're sorry for Phanagoria! Have you

forgotten what happened to it?

Not you! May the bori-tarkan

Sevar speak his mind!

Yuvigi!

Our people have followed you loyally

for long springs, summers and autumns.

They don't shout to you

now because of ease!

As much as it pains me to say it,

we can see there's no no-man's land

left waiting for its masters!

Wherever we stop,

we'll have to fight!

Then why not here?

The boil Sevar is right!

It's not from ease!

Unharness and unsaddle!

I accept, though I do not agree!

I don't recognize our camp as

a capital or our fields as a state!

The new Bulgaria should be different!

Thank you for helping me

in such a hard time...

Once, kanasubigi Kubrat

asked me to come with you,

to be your support in black days.

And in your blackest day, you

managed it without my help.

The elder of the house of Dulo

is no longer needed.

You've decided to leave us?

Since the day I learned

I have no sons left,

everything drew me back,

to their graves!

I wanted,

but I didn't dare go back.

I worried for you

and the future of the people!

I hardly lived to see

the Bulgars stop!

We lived to see

swamps instead of the forts

of Great Bulgaria!

But how could I not yield

to the people's suffering?!

You yielded,

but you didn't agree!

That was the word of a khan! That

showed me you've grown enough to rule!

Leave us! We should take

farewell alone!

It's my sin that I didn't

get to know you, uncle!

That I couldn't be your son!

So it is among men!

Power stops men from being close!

I wouldn't talk either, like I

do now, if I didn't sense my end!

Yuvigi, the water broke through

the rampart at the northern gate, too!

Take some men from the bagatur

bagain Stazis to help!

At least this

could have avoided us!

In those terrible

days and nights,

Asparuh changed!

His unwilling standstill

was tormenting him.

He no longer had those bursts

of sorrow or elation,

which he had before.

Sometimes he wouldn't speak

to me for days,

as if he had forgotten me.

I would see him closed up

in himself,

plunged in insistent thoughts.

He knew Great Bulgaria was now

a part of the Bulgars' past!

That something quite new, something

unknown was ahead!

And he was sorry he couldn't see

the people around him prepared for it!

I thought Asparuh's whole life

was a chain of losses.

With the only gain - his rule

grew stronger, taking deeper

and deeper roots!

Yuvigi,

messengers of the Slavs!

What brings you here?

Didn't you give us your word

you'll leave in the spring?

I changed my mind!

We'll stay for awhile!

We see what you're doing!

Who'll put so much effort,

if he plans to stay only a bit?

I haven't said it's a bit!

Only as much as I want to!

I know, now you'll tell me

the land and waters were yours!

Fine, I'll take them

from you by force!

And then I won't let you get near

the river and the islands!

What if we don't let you

settle down here?!

You're free to try!

Think it over!

If you agree with us,

we'll dig out a second round ditch

a day's horseride from here!

That will be our pasture land!

And what about the waters?

- The water is for everyone! I've said!

Your people, Belisarius!

Guarding the border!

What will you say, if we

pay a visit to your homeland?

You're not going anywhere!

You have children here!

They don't stop me from hunting!

Even more, I have to hunt for them!

You're going to your people,

not for hunting!

I won't let you!

Ie!

The khan ordered it.

They're asleep.

And when they ask me tomorrow

where the khan is?

You'll say I'm out hunting!

Isn't it dangerous to go

without guards, yuvigi?

Don't interfere!

Do you keep an eye on the kolober?

- Yes, yuvigi,

but his spirit doesn't

rise against your will.

I keep thinking he incited

the people during the spring,

when I ordered us to go.

Tangra, what land!

I feel like I'm dreaming!

The Slavs!

A 100 years now since they came.

We've done everything to stop them!

To push them back to the north!

This land is too beautiful,

Belisarius!

If you become its lord, prepare

for endless wars to keep it!

Wanderers, don't defile

the water-nymphs' spring!

Don't defile the sacred spring

of the water-nymphs!

Where are you from, strangers?

- From beyond!

No one's came back from beyond!

No, we come from beyond

the Danube! We're not Romans!

Are we allowed to rest here

during midday?

I allow!

What are they doing?

Where are we?

- On a sacred ground!

The Thracians worshipped

the Gods here before we did!

They come again!

Fourth time this summer!

The border.

It seems it separates not only the Empire

from your so-called barbarian lands,

but also two worlds!

Greetings, yuvigi!

What is it?

Rasate is dead, yuvigi!

What?!

The khan! The khan!

May his reign last forever!

Yuvigi, had you taken him

with you, he'd be alive now!

What happened?

Ask the kolober!

We know nothing!

They brought us Rasate slain!

How did the boil Rasate die?

As he deserved!

More precisely?

- As a traitor!

Rasate came to me

at dawn to tell me

you had secretly went

to the Roman land!

And he whispered to me

to lead the boils against you,

because you're preparing

for war with Byzantium!

No Bulgar in his right mind

would believe such a slander!

And you killed him in your just anger?

- Yes!

I was afraid he'll draw more people

to treason, if I give him time!

And Rasate told you

I've crossed the Danube?

Rasate!

Yet,

did you cross it or not?

If you think Rasate might have

told you the truth,

why did you kill him?

Yuvigi,

did you believe him?

If they ask you tomorrow

why Rasate died,

tell them:
for treason!

Won't you invite me?

I don't see your oldest son,

Iratais!

Tell him tomorrow he becomes

a bagain, one of my men!

Yuvigi, why did they kill Rasate?

Because he was loyal to me!

Sit down, yuvigi!

May your reign last forever, yuvigi!

Greetings from Bulgaria!

Greetings from khan Kotrag!

Speak!

- Khan Kotrag sends word

that he found a land for our people!

Where the rivers Itil and Kama join,

there is now Bulgaria! We built

it on an empty field!

Our children and herds multiply!

The Bulgar towns grow strong!

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