young wife of Goiko

Also known as: Goiko's youthful wife · Role: wife · First appears: Chapter XIII · The Building of Skadar (Scutari) · Part 2

In Chapter XIII · The Building of Skadar (Scutari), Part 2, Voivode Goyko keeps silent and does not warn his wife of the danger. At Skadra, she leaves her infant Yovo with his grandmother and carries food to the builders. King Voukashin seizes her and orders Neimar Rado and the workmen to immure her.

At her request, Rado has openings left so she can nurse Yovo and see her home and child. After she is walled in, Yovo is brought to her and she suckles him until her voice falls silent; he remains at her breast for a year.

Relationship record

Life events

• Goiko keeps silent and does not warn his wife of the danger.(Chapter XIII · The Building of Skadar (Scutari) · Part 2)
  • With: Voivode Goyko
  • “Faithful to his oath, young Goiko whisper'd Not a breath to warn his lovely consort.”
• Goiko's wife leaves the infant with his grandmother and carries food to the builders.(Chapter XIII · The Building of Skadar (Scutari) · Part 2 · 📍 Skadra)
  • With: the mother of Goiko's young wife
  • “So she staid at home, the aged mother, And she rock'd the nursling in the cradle. Then arose the youthful wife of Goiko; Gave them the repast, and bade them forward.”
• Vukashin seizes Goiko's wife and orders Rado and the workmen to immure her.(Chapter XIII · The Building of Skadar (Scutari) · Part 2)
  • With: King Voukashin Neimar Rado
  • “But the king allow'd it not. Vukashin, By her white hand seizes her, and summons Master Rado,--he the master-builder; And he summons his three hundred workmen.”
• Rado orders a window left open at her breast at her request.(Chapter XIII · The Building of Skadar (Scutari) · Part 2)
  • With: Neimar Rado
  • “Rado bade the workmen all obey her, Leave a window for that snowy bosom, Let that snowy bosom heave it freely When her voiceless Yovo shall come near her, When he comes, he'll drink from out her bosom.”
• Rado orders a window left so she can see her home and infant.(Chapter XIII · The Building of Skadar (Scutari) · Part 2)
  • With: Neimar Rado
  • “Rado bade the workmen all obey her, Leave for those bright eyes a little window, That her eyes may see her own white dwelling, When they bring her infant Yovo to her, When they take the infant Yovo homeward.”
• After she is immured, Goiko's wife suckles Yovo until her voice falls silent.(Chapter XIII · The Building of Skadar (Scutari) · Part 2)
  • With: Yovo
  • “So they built the heavy wall about her, And then brought the infant in his cradle, Which a long, long while his mother suckled. Then her voice grew feeble--then was silent: Still the stream flow'd forth and nursed the infant: Full a year he hung upon her bosom;”

Chapter XIII · The Building of Skadar (Scutari) · Part 2

• married with Voivode Goyko “O my wife, my own! my full heart's-sorrow!”
• child: Yovo “Goiko's youthful wife at home is tarrying, For she has an infant in the cradle Not a full moon old; the little nursling:”
• parent: the mother of Goiko's young wife “And her aged mother then bestirs her;”
• enemies with King Voukashin (Vukashin seizes her and summons the builder and workmen to immure her.) “By her white hand seizes her, and summons Master Rado,--he the master-builder; And he summons his three hundred workmen.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians (Chapters IV–XIII). Made with Rho MD.