Note 15 — Note to Chapter 60. The fables of Pilpay.

I adopted this translation of deśajna, in deference to the opinion of a good native scholar, but might not the word mean simply “knowing countries?” The crow then would be a kind of feathered Ulysses, cp. Waldau’s Böhmische Märchen, p. 255. The fable may remind some readers of the following lines in Spenser’s Mother Hubberd’s Tale.