Hadko’s wedding
For the people of the taiga, no less astonishing than Mebet’s victory over the Vaynot clan was Hadne’s betrayal. She was the daughter of honored and wealthy parents. It was not particularly rare to find in the taiga a woman who had mastered the art of the bow, but Hadne had shot at her own people. She had killed her own kin who had come to free her and to avenge her. Such betrayal was something that no one had ever heard or seen before, and therefore they found it almost unbelievable.
People talked of how the abducted girl must have been afraid of Mebet, how she was suddenly inflamed by passion for his son, how she long held a grudge against her parents and clan, how her mother-in-law had put her under a spell, how she must have been bribed, or how women were naturally ev
