Crossword-Solution: LGA 3 letters, 122 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

The people there however said to each other: "The Fronfasten Mütterli (the little mother of the Emberweeks) Frau Sälga passed over our valley last night with her train of maidens.

Nis Angel-cynn be·d[=æ]led Dryhtnes h[=a]lgena, þonne on [E,]n[.g]la-lande li[.c][.g]aþ swelce h[=a]lgan swelce 220 þes h[=a]lga cyning, and C[=u]þberht se [=e]adiga and sancte Æþelþr[=y]þ on [=E]li[.g], and [=e]ac hiere sweostor, onsund on l[=i]chaman, [.g]e·l[=e]afan t[=o] trymmunge.

Imagine a spacious, well-kept nobleman’s estate in the middle of Russia, somewhere on the picturesque banks of the Vólga, at a time when there were no railways to disturb a peaceful patriarchal life, and no “questions” that could worry the minds of its inhabitants.

The scene is laid in a small provincial town, somewhere on the upper Vólga, where the manners of the local trades-people have retained the stamp of primitive wildness.

This is a feature which is quite characteristic in the small towns on the upper Vólga: I have myself known well educated ladies who, having once been frightened by one of these sudden storms--they are of a terrific grandeur--retained a life-long fear of thunder.