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[1.1] That, over the waters of Shuguthiwyus[1], the ship of Ajius went to Iwojash[2], [1.2] which carried Thrino Uruguithoth[3], his daughter, who had eyes of the sky. [1.3] As far as the land where Both is, they went, while a falcon approached her. [1.4] It was the Wind[4], the son of the Sun, together with the Storm, beloved by men. [1.5] This is because Sky and Earth are the fruit of the waters and so beautiful were their bodies [1.6] as the two are equal, for they are, truly, twins, whose faces are the same. [1.7] They had three sons: the Storm, the Moon, and before that, the Sun. [1.8] The son of the Sun, seeing the beautiful woman, wanted (her) body [1.9] and at night, while Ajius slept, he turned into a complete wolf, I say, and went towards the woman.

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[2.10] From her (were born) two beautiful sons: Ruyr Argus[5], who was a man ruled by the desire to kill, [2.11] and a wolf, Ruyr Juriuth[6], was the second son, who felt like a man. [2.12] The wolf, indeed, entered the forest near the Orshilus and was met by a pack of wolves. [2.13] In it, then, he hunted and played with the other wolves, who were his brothers. [2.14] But a man and a woman entered the forest alone one day, their bodies naked, [2.15] and Ruyr Juriuth saw them lying down among the bushes and approached them. [2.16] But the wolf was seen by them and, taking his clothes, they then fled from him. [2.17] Ruyr Juriuth (went) after them, because he did not know those animals then, [2.18] but, because of this, he left the forest, moved away from it then and also moved away from the pack of wolves.

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[3.19] Some soldiers saw him and took him to a aethath[7], where Caewus Orshy[8] was, [3.20] who then taught the wolf to bite and to fight and Ruyr Juriuth listened to him. [3.21] Caewus Orshy's mother, Iwius, then fed him and gave him (a place) to sleep. [3.22] Ruyr Juriuth loved them so much that he prayed to the gods, that he could speak with them. [3.23] He then wished to tell them of the love for them that was within him. [3.24] His father then listened to him and turned (his) body into a beautiful man's body. [3.25] Ruyr Juriuth then went to Caewus Orshy and showed him the metals, [3.26] which the man had then placed in his animal ears and which were then in his man's ears[9]. [3.27] He told him that he was the animal that had been brought there from the forest.

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[4.28] Ruyr Juriuth told him that he had then prayed to the gods to speak with them, [4.29] that he then wished to tell them of the love for them that was within him. [4.30] Caewus Orshy then took his head with love and brought it to his chest. [4.31] Then he called the woman he was going to marry, whose name was Burutnus [4.32] and, whom he had seen in the forest, Ruyr Juriuth saw in her at that moment, [4.33] but he did not tell Caewus Orshy, because he did not want to cause him pain. [4.34] Then Caewus Orshy quickly prepared for war, accompanied by Ruyr Juriuth. [4.35] They went to Both; then, Ruyr Juriuth, from afar, saw Ruyr Argus there [4.36] and, whom he had seen in the forest, he then saw in his brother.

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[5.37] Ruyr Argus rushed towards him, his dagger in his hand, but he did not see his brother then. [5.38] Ruyr Juriuth stepped out of the way of the weapon and thrust his own into his chest. [5.39] He fell dead to the ground, and Caewus Orshy's soldiers entered Ajius' court. [5.40] Caewus Orshy saw Irus Phaeshgy[10] and Guruphus Phaeshgy[11]: two heads, one body. [5.41] This Ajius' soldier was certainly the son of Thiwicus; one of the richest of Iwojash. [5.42] He did not deliver the doth[12] and gave a single loaf of bread to each of his servants every day until he died. [5.43] Onarus[13] told him that he would not have food because he did not place it on the stone[14]. [5.44] Their dead were then to take the seeds of this, [5.45] to sow the plants, which Ziwico was to eat.

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[6.46] He then asked Onarus to give him a year on the land, [6.47] to obtain food for himself in the Thinmus and Onarus agreed. [6.48] Thiwicus went to the land, bought a thousand cows and then bought a thousand jasphus[15], [6.49] in order to have much meat and much milk and to have much seed. [4.50] But the cattle were abundant and the servants did not milk all [4.51] of those that produced milk, nor did they kill all (that) gave meat; [6.52] of those they did not govern, some then left the jasphus and others died in the plain. [6.53] The jasphus were extensive; the servants did not harvest or sow the entire harvest and they were covered by weeds. [6.54] They removed it in one jasphus and it completely covered the one where they had previously removed it.

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[7.55] To him the end of the year (came); he had given nothing to those who had gone before him, and he had no food in the Thinmus. [7.56] But his body was beautiful, and the Moon desired him, and from them were born the two Phaeshgy, although before they had separated from their mother's womb. [7.57] Then Caewus Orshy prepared to kill them, and Irus Phaeshgy accepted him. [7.58] But the brother asked him not to kill them but to take them as hostages. [7.59] Irus Phaeshgy then believed that it was far better to die than to be a prisoner. [7.60] And Gurufus Phaeshgy, for his part, believed that being a prisoner was, by the same degree, better than to die there. [7.61] Caewus Orshy took the sickle that hung from his waist and cut the bodies of both of them, separating them. [7.62] Then he killed Irus Phaeshgy, who went to Thinmus and the father and took the other prisoner. [7.63] Irus Phaeshgy then saw Thiwicus there and he received him gladly.

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[8.64] Then, Ruyr Juriuth, for his part, saw Thrino Uruguithoth and took her prisoner, but without seeing the mother, [8.65] and she saw, in his dagger, that of her son, without seeing the son, so she thought that he had killed him, [6.66] and she asked her son, sad and hurt, for the death, without knowing it, but he refused. [8.67] And, arriving at the aethath, they were met by Burutnus, who, then, with Caewus Orshy's dagger, [8.68] tried to kill him, but Ruyr Juriuth moved out of the way of the weapon, stuck his own in the woman's breast [8.69] and she fell dead to the ground; Caewus Orshy went to his aethath, but Ruyr Juriuth was not there. [8.70] Then his father took him from the land of men to the (land) of the gods, before Caewus Orshy saw him. [8.71] He saw, instead, the one he was to marry dead, and he saw, also, the mother of the man who killed (her). [8.72] Then Ajius came to his tent, looking for his daughter, and killed Caewus Orshy.

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[9.73] Ruyr Juriuth awoke and was turned into a wolf by the Wind, but he did not see Caewus Orshy, [9.74] so he went to the land of men to look for him, and for years he wandered, without stopping or eating, [9.75] his body grew tired and he died then; but, nevertheless, the Wind does not know that men and animals die. [9.76] The father looks for the son every day, from the sky, longing and asking to see him. [9.77] He was happy when he saw a pack of wolves in the forest[16], hunting and playing, [9.78] and he despairs and becomes enraged, on the other hand, when he does not see the son in the forest or among them. [9.79] When he does (so), his strong arms tear down walls from the earth, without looking, [9.80] and they also tear roofs and walls from their foundations. [9.81] The wolf is the only animal on earth that can truly calm the Wind.

[1]Name by which the Iedans knew the Edulio Sea.

[2] Name by which the Iedans knew the the Island of Xamesy.

[3] Zrīnö Urugůejzoz, "Fire Tree".

[4]The nouns of the element-gods are animate, but in the Insular Vermaric group, these elements had become neuter, even though in Proto-Vermaric they were animate, which identified the element with the deity in a single entity. Cf. *tʃoraja was animate because it referred to the Vermaric moon-goddess Tsoraja, while Iedan jůrïůz (which comes from *tʃoraja) is neuter and refers to the star; but Jůrïů, which was formed from jůrïůz, refers to the moon deity. It is possible that in Proto-Insular Vermaric these elements became inanimate objects, but later, in Iedus, they were identified as animate deities again. However, the neuter version was not lost, but coexisted with the deified animated one (cf. Ruyr Jůrïůz), so it is not clear whether the Iedans deified the star or separated it from a deity who governed it.

[5] Ruyr Argu, "Blood Eyes".

[6] Ruyr Jůrïůz, "Moon eyes".

[7] æzəzoz, military camp of Vermarian origin; from Proto Vermaric *ae-k(u)ta-wek (cf. gýtay sb.).

[8] Kæłů Oršy, "Fast Horse".

[9] In the Insular Vermaric languages, there is one word for animal ears (ïno in Jedus) and another for human ears (łů in Jedus).

[10] Ejro Φæšgy, "Angry Hawk".

[11] Guruφo Φæšgy, "Strong Hawk".

[12] dozoz, tribute of Insular Vermaric origin that the richest paid to the State to finance wars and public works.

[13] Iedan god of life and death.

[14] The Jedans erected a mound of stones in which they placed food, which they offered to their deceased ancestors. This rite has Vermaric origins. See note 1 of the Fragment in Archaic Symbaian. For the Insular Vermaric tribes, the purpose of this rite was to prepare the provisions that the living would eat after death at Thinmus (the Iedan other world), which were prepared by their deceased ancestors.

[15] jas'ḧбö, hectare of land owned and exploited by the Iedan aristocracy.

[16] zrīnögo ůφ, literally, "among (the) trees", since the word zrīnögo ("forest") is the collective of zrīnö ("tree").