On this hero's "Âfirst journey," he defeated a monster who hung out in a tree and used hiswhistle to murder strangers, then brought that defeated monster, Nightingale the Robber, back to Vladimir the Great.
This man was way too small for a con that Ât his friend perfectly, so that friend passed his strength to this man withhis dying breath before sealing himself up. Insulted that he was not invited to a king's celebration, he once destroyed all thesteeples in that king's realm. In a less glamorous moment, he ran across an open fieeld, swung his forty-pound mace at a sleepinggiant, but only provoked the response "Oh, how badly flees can bite!" before being stuffed into the giant's pocket. For the Âfirstthirty years this man's life, a curse kept him sitting on an oven before he was healed and was able to walk and fight. Duringone journey, this man defeated the monstrous Idolische, who possibly represented the Tartar Yoke, and on another journeyhe befriended the giant Sviatogor. On this hero's "Âfirst journey," he defeated a monster who hung out in a tree and used hiswhistle to murder strangers, then brought that defeated monster, Nightingale the Robber, back to Vladimir the Great. For 10points, name this legendary bogatyr from Kiev, a peasant-prince recognized as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church.
This man was way too small for a con that Ât his friend perfectly,
Ilya Muromets [accept either name; or Ilya of Murom]