
Indrek Hirv
Tallinn : Eetriüksus, 2009
113 p : ill.
ISBN 9789949184958
Hardcover book in very good condition
This is the story of the Estonian flag, highly suitable as a film script, a play, or the framework for a novel. It begins on the early morning of June 4, 1884, with a departure from Tartu. University students, educated young men speaking Estonian, are seated on a wagon, the blue-black-and-white flag fluttering above their heads. "When the people of Kungla lived in golden times" echoes off the cobblestones and the walls of Riia Hill's houses... the clatter of iron-rimmed wheels, waving Estonian maidens, and so on.