Russian mythology: merchants and mermaids

once upon a time, in the famous city of novgorod, there was a violinist named sadegor, the best violinist in russia.

all merchants, rich and privileged nobles were invited to celebrate the festival, because the sadgo violin and his songs allowed them to entertain and enjoy.

one day, sadego came to lake ilmen and played the violin all day from morning to night.

at night, the waves began to roll on the lake, piled up on the beach, with sadego's feet, and the violinists came back as fast as they could fly home.

three days in a row, he's been playing on the shore.

suddenly, the water king came out of the bottom of the lake, and he said with a loud voice to sadego: “sadego, thank you for playing for us during our celebration.

i will prove my gratitude to you.

go back to the city of novgoro and wait in peace until tomorrow, when the rich will invite you, and they want to show off as they used to.

you can also show yourself, and tell them you saw the gold finfish in the lake.

and then you can bet with them that you can catch the gold finfish, and you just make up a net and throw it into the lake three times.

in this way, you bet you can win and become a rich businessman in novgorod.” everything is not what the water king expected.

sadego became a rich businessman in novgorod.

he built a house with white stones and married a young girl.

one day, he invited all the giants in novgorod city for a big celebration.

people eat and drink, and then the merchants naturally start to brag and sell themselves.

sadego said to them, “only those idiots boast about the wealth they already have.

what do i have to say? i have so much money, i can buy all the goods in novgorod." the merchants immediately bet with him that he would not be able to do so and that whoever loses would have to pay 30,000 roubles.

sadego started buying goods from the city of novgorod.

the first day, he bought all day, the next day and the third day.

by the third day, however, a variety of commodities had come from kiev and other large cities.

sadegor understood that he had to buy the whole russian product to win.

actually, it's not just a russian that he has to buy the world.

so he said to himself, "i'll never buy them.

looks like i'd rather pay 30,000 rubles than lose my fortune." he paid to build 30 black boats to carry these.

the boat sailed along the river and headed for the sea.

on the third day there was a storm, and sadegor thought he had to give a tribute to the sea king to survive, and then he threw tons of goods into the sea, but he didn't get better.

sadego was alone in the waves, and soon he fell asleep because he was exhausted.

when he woke up, he found himself at the bottom of the sea, parked in front of a white stone castle door.

he entered the gates and came to a bright hall of two, where he saw the king sitting on his throne.

the sea king told him to use titsIt plays for itself and dances with music.

It doesn't matter if he dances, but there's a huge wave on the sea, and several boats are turned over.

Suddenly, someone shot him on the shoulder of Sadego, turning around and looking at him as an old man.

"That's enough, that's enough, my little violinist, to play now! You put all the people at sea in danger." "This is what the King of the Sea ordered me to pull." Sadgo answered.

The gray-haired old man suggested to him at this point, "You break the strings and the keys, and then you tell the king that he can't play the violin anymore, and because you're playing for him, he's going to pay you to choose a wife among the mermaid.

And do not choose the 300 who are in front, nor the 300 who are in the middle, and choose the last of the 300 who are in the next.

But you must remember one thing: never embrace her, or the worst will happen to you.” Sadgor listened to his advice.

Indeed, it was as the old men had predicted.

The mermaids marched in full line towards Sadegor, who let the one in front pass and left the last one behind.

She was the prettiest of the 900 mermaids.

He held her hand and shouted, "I chose this one!" 'The people prepared a big party and a very big wedding for him.

Sadego hugged his wife more than once.

On the night of the wedding, when they were lying side by side in bed, the groom closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The following morning, when he woke up, he found himself back in Novgorod.

He saw himself in front of the vast Volhoff River, screaming with joy.

A row of big black boats was passing through the river.

He recognized these as his ships.

The sailors looked at him with surprise, because everyone thought he was dead.

They cried for him, but now they see him standing on a hill by the bank of the river.

His door unloaded all the boxes full of gold and silver and pearls on the ship, and Sadgo returned to his home.

He held a great feast for the entire city of Novgorod.

And then we're going around the world.

But he never sailed at sea again.

He became the happiest man in beautiful Novgorod。