Arutelu:Sigtuna väravad

Number eight, The Gates of Sigtuna Karl Ristikivi has called simply — a storybook. Ten seemingly disconnected episodes run from 1453 to approximately 1560-s. The mood changes from back-slapping laughter, to tongue-in-the-cheek, to smiling-through-tears, to pure poetic. The cast of characters includes: a Greek philosopher, "who never learned to shut up"; a German refugee in Italy writing witty lampoons about the Pope; amorous Don Juan meeting pious Joan of Arc in limbo, where both finally have to admit they were not superhuman — just human; a traveling rogue of a storyteller in Flanders — telling old fairytales with a new ironical twist at the end; the travels of a Swede to the vodka-conscious Novgorod; a Finnish minor war completely garbled by a young over-anxious historian; an Estonian peasant carrying home his master — a dead Livonian Knight — through half of Russia, and finally and old, cruel Baltic Governor, seated on his castle wall on a late autumn night, listening to the sad, accusing cries of the swans flying under the cold, moonlit sky. -- nii kirjutas Jyri Kork Ohpuu 2. veebruar 2007, kell 08:45 (UTC)