Lāčplēsis
Sign in to saveLāčplēsis ("The Bear-Slayer") is an epic poem by Andrejs Pumpurs, a Latvian poet, who wrote it between 1872 and 1887 based on local legends. It is set during the Livonian Crusades telling the story of the mythical hero Lāčplēsis "the Bear Slayer". Lāčplēsis is regarded as the Latvian national epic.
Key facts
- Book.name
- Lāčplēsis
- Book.author
- Andrejs Pumpurs
- Book.language
- Latvian, translated multiple times.
- Book.country
- Latvia
- Book.genre
- Epic poetry, National epic
- Book.image
- Brīvības_piemineklis-Lāčplēsis.png
- Book.caption
- Lāčplēsis on the Freedom Monument
- Book.pub_date
- 1888
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- Brīvības piemineklis-Lāčplēsis.png
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- publication date
- 1888-00-00
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Lāčplēsis ("The Bear-Slayer") is an epic poem by Andrejs Pumpurs, a Latvian poet, who wrote it between 1872 and 1887 based on local legends. It is set during the Livonian Crusades telling the story of the mythical hero Lāčplēsis "the Bear Slayer". Lāčplēsis is regarded as the Latvian national epic.
==Synopsis== 250px|thumb|right|Latvian postage stamp depicting Lāčplēsis as the protector of Riga The poem opens at the council of the Baltic gods at the palace of Pērkons in the sky where the Father of Destiny declares that Latvians are under threat because Christian crusaders are going to come and conquer the Baltic lands and enslave the Latvian nation. The Gods promise to protect the Latvians. When the meeting comes to an end suddenly Staburadze arrives and ask for advice in her matter: she has found a young man drowning in the river Daugava where he has to turn into stone. Pērkons says that he has chosen this man for an important matter and that he will save the man. The council ends with the question, will the Baltic gods ever come back together?