Petər Klepəc
[8]: 6 This was matched (or repeated) by Jože Ožura, who placed the abode of Klepəc with his mother on the outskirts of Osilnica, "morda tam nekje na Selih ali na Puojzu[b] ali Potuharici" and states he later moved with his wife to Mali Lug where he built a house.
[1] Poženčan [sl]'s version related he was the illegitimate child of a poor mother, because of which he was often called a pankert by his shepherd friends, who often teased and beat him.
[2]: 93–97 In other accounts from the same century, the power mediator is a vila, which lead Hirc to describe Klepəc as a "second Prince Marko".
[1]: 1 The first account related by Hirc in his 1898 book did not involve a vila granting power, but the Mother of God to whom he prayed while on Sveta Gora near Gerovo.
[3] Hirc 1898 also provided an alternate account, likewise on Sveta Gora, where Klepəc met two women lying down, for whom he made a shade to shield them from the sun.
After the meal, the wrestling match began, and when they crossed shoulders, Klepəc shook his opponent so hard he threw up the wine he had drunk.
[3] The Sevčan version, related to him at Osilnica, began the narration with a king who made his camp on Kraljev Vrh [hr], providing an etymology for the village's name lit.
The Muscovites were overjoyed with the news of this victory, granting the Austrian emperor part of the land beyond the Danube and giving Klepəc hunting license, freeing him from taxation, and whatever he desired.
The people had fled to the caves, but Petər Klepəc was carrying barrels of wine to some foresters at the time.
Petər told them to have a seat but then grabbed a beech sapling and beat the Turks with it, following which they fled through Fažonci [hr] to Osilnica and beyond.
[3] Dragutin Hirc [hr] described a painting once kept in a house in Mali Lug of Petər Klepəc, girded with sword and spear on his right and with mace and arrow on his left, with "Plemeniti Petar Klepac" written above his head.
It was carried by Gerovo townspeople around neighbouring villages and towns as late as around 1840, but it had already been lost by the time Dragutin Hirc visited Mali Lug.
[1]: 124–126 In the late 1980s, Stanko Nikolić,[e] resolved to have a statue of Petər Klepəc erected in Osilnica to increase its tourism potential, but initial attempts to commission it from Liv Postojna failed.
So they built a statue of human height out of rods, which Marijan Leš of Gerovo[f] laughed at, offering his own services when asked.
[h] Josip Klepac,[i] among those who claim descent from Petər Klepəc,[7]: 265 contemplated demolishing the original rod statue in Osilnica together with a group of friends the night after it was erected.
[1]: 126–129 A year or two later, another statue was carved by Stane Jarm [sl], of Osilnica by birth, erected in the Kovač inn there.
[j] In the end it was Marijan Leš who eased those tensions by carving a larger, more challenging statue, with the financing of the city of Čabar and wood from the Šumarija Gerovo and Uprava šuma Podružnice Delnice and erecting it in front of the Petər Klepəc house in Mali Lug on 20 July 2007.
[22]: 62–63, 342 [23]: 208 According to Jemeršić, who visited Mali Lug in 1903, the street next to Petər Klepəc's house bore his name.
Mali Lug has a Dfb climate and exceptionally high rainfall, averaging over 900 mm/year in the vegetational period[28] and over 2000 mm/year in total,[29] resulting in high growth rates regionally disproportionate to its largely temperature-mediated shorter growing season,[30] which is not conducive to long ages for hardwoods.
[36] Being in cultivation since the Late Neolithic or Early to Middle Bronze Age even in Europe, Malus domestica lost much of its genetic diversity and the historical focus on form and fruit traits at the expense of disease resistance outside of epidemics led to the apple being plagued with low lifespan, exacerbated by annual exposure to disease during trimming.
One of the oldest living individuals is the Dosch Yellow Bellflower Apple from 1850 with a Csb climate,[40] since the Old Apple Tree in the same region died in 2020 at the age of 194,[41] but in climates closer to that in Mali Lug, few trees have been estimated to be much more than 120 years old, an example being an individual of the Citronka zimna variety in Zabudišová near Bošáca.
After the popularisation of Klepəc tales beyond traditional limits, this phrase continued to be used,[47] in addition to its expansion to new domains of phraseology.
