The Tale of the Eagle

The youth then climbed to the top of the crag where he saw, in the nest, an eaglet playing with the dead snake.

Suddenly it stirred, revealed its fangs and was ready to pierce the eaglet with its deadly venom.

Suddenly the youth heard above him the loud whir of the great eagle's wings.

"The child is mine because I saved it from the snake which you didn't kill," answered the youth.

After the eaglet grew, it would always fly above the head of the youth, now a grown man, who with his bow and arrows killed many wild beasts of the forest, and with his sword slew many enemies of the land.