Note 31 — Chapter V
Reading edition
An allusion to the fondness of bears for honey occurs more than once in this tale, and will be met with in some shape or other in most works which treat of that animal’s habits and propensities: that such is the case in Europe, as well as in North America, may be gathered from the fact that, in the Russian tongue, a bear is called “Med–vede,” which word is thus formed: med, honey; vede, who knows: “He who knows honey.”