Tsar'-devitsa translation question

[Irina Dolgova]

Dear Robert,

You are right. It's the same is "kuda ugodno", "kuda emu okhota" = 
"khochrtsia". Po + dative as is "according to his wish". Compare: Ona 
bol'shaia okhotnitsa do varen'a. It's out dated of course but the 
connection with "prostorechie" Mne (ne) okhota is still very strong.

Irina

On 9/19/2010 5:13 PM, Robert Chandler wrote:
> OR IS IT
>
> And the tsar ordered him to be given the best horse, so that he might ride
> wherever he wished.
>
> ??
>
> R.
>
>
>
>    
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This is from a lesser-known variant of the story.  Ivan is, of course, the
>> third son:
>>
>>              This made Ivan Tsarevich angry.  He said, ‘Father, great lord
>> and hope!  If you grant me your blessing and forgiveness, I shall ride away.
>> And if you do not grant me your blessing and forgiveness, I shall still ride
>> away.’
>>              And the tsar ordered him to be given the best horse, as if he
>> were about to go hunting.
>>
>> The last words are no more than a blind guess on my part.  Here is the
>> Russian:
>> И царь приказал наилучшего коня дать, когда пущай по охоте поедет.
>>
>> Am I right in understanding по охоте as being to do with hunting rather than
>> wishing?  And who is the subject of поедет?  Ivan – or his father the tsar?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Robert
>>
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