lga gave her consent and married the Eagle.
The Eagle took her and carried her off to his own kingdom.

Another year went by. Prince Ivan said to his youngest
sister:

"Let us go out and stroll in the garden green!"

They strolled about for a time. Again there arose a stormcloud,
with whirlwind and lightning.

"Let us return home, sister!" said he.

They returned home, but they hadn't had time to sit down
when the thunder[102] crashed, the ceiling split open, and in flew
a raven. The Raven smote upon the floor and became a brave
youth. The former youths had been handsome, but this one
was handsomer still.

"Well, Prince Ivan! Before I came as a guest, but now I
have come as a wooer. Give me the Princess Anna to wife."

"I won't interfere with my sister's freedom. If you gain her
affections, let her marry you."

So the Princess Anna married the Raven, and he bore her
away to his own realm. Prince Ivan was left alone. A whole
year he lived without his sisters; then he grew weary, and
said:--

"I will set out in search of my sisters."

He got ready for the journey, he rode and rode, and one day
he saw a whole army lying dead on the plain. He cried aloud,
"If there be a living man there, let him make answer! who has
slain this mighty host?"

There replied unto him a living man:

"All this mighty host has been slain by the fair Princess
Marya Morevna."

Prince Ivan rode further on, and came to a white tent, and
forth came to meet him the fair Princess Marya Morevna.

"Hail Prince!" says she, "whither does God send you?
and is it of your free will or against your will?"

Prince Ivan replied, "Not against their will do brave youths
ride!"

"Well, if your business be not pressing, tarry awhile in my
tent."

Thereat was Prince Ivan glad. He spent two nights in the
tent, and he found favor in the eyes of Marya Morevna, and
she married him. The fair Princess, Marya Morevna, carried
him off into her own realm.

They spent some time together, and then the Princess took
it into her head to go a warring. So she handed over all the
housekeeping affairs to Prince Ivan, and gave him these instructions:

"Go about everywhere, keep watch over everything, only do
not venture to look into that closet there."

He couldn't help doing so. The moment Marya Morevna
had gone he rushed to the closet, pulled open the door, and