Crossword-Solution: SLA 3 letters, 152 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 3

Tene Sla asked the big master for you, and I think he would have got you, but for your mother, who said he was not a good hunter; and Nagaja wanted you, and Jemmy, the Loucheux boy; but your father was dead, and your mother said you must take a man who would hunt for her, and bring her meat; and so bad Michel came and took you away to the Praying man and to Yazete Koa (the church), and you became his wife.

The Sla'vi warred chiefly against the Eastern empire, and their contest with the Grecian forces on the Danube, in the sixth and seventh centuries, shook the throne of Constantinople.

From the conspicuous blackness of its rind at the time of flowering, the tree is named Blackthorn, and the spell of harsh unkindly cold weather which prevails about then goes by the name of "blackthorn winter." The term Sloe, or Sla, means not the fruit but the hard trunk, being connected with a verb signifying to slay, or strike, probably because the wood of this tree was used as a flail, and nowadays makes a bludgeon.

The principal amusement on Sundays and holidays is the _choró_ ([Greek: choros]), which is danced on the village green to the strains of the _gaida_ or bagpipe, and the _gûsla_, a rudimentary fiddle.

The biographical Sagas, with which it is introduced or supported, are as good as all but the best of the heroic Sagas, while they are not out of all comparison even with _Njála_ or _Gísla_, with _Hrafnkels Saga_ or _Bandamanna_, in the qualities in which these excel.