The caption for this illustration reads: God bless you, o clean green lake! In your bosom, I will henceforth live - or Beauteous green lake, thou art to be my home forevermore. The scene is from a Serbian myth and shows a woman vowing to step into the lake and there reside. The maiden is a Vila - in Serbian mythology, a beautiful water nymph.

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The caption for this illustration reads: God bless you, o clean green lake! In your bosom, I will henceforth live - or Beauteous green lake, thou art to be my home forevermore. The scene is from a Serbian myth and shows a woman vowing to step into the lake and there reside. The maiden is a Vila - in Serbian mythology, a beautiful water nymph.

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Size: 3457px × 5250px
Photo credit: © Ivy Close Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: female, folktale, horse, horseback, lake, legend, maiden, man, myth, mythology, nymph, serb, serbia, serbian, tale, vil, vila, water