Editing Má vlast (section)

=== Šárka ===
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[[File:Věnceslav Černý - Ctirad a Šárka.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Šárka and Ctirad: [[Věnceslav Černý]]]]
The third poem was finished on 20 February 1875 and is named for the female warrior Šárka, a central figure in the ancient Czech legend of ''[[The Maidens' War]]''. Šárka ties herself to a tree as bait and waits to be saved by the princely knight Ctirad, deceiving him into believing that she is an unwilling captive of the rebelling women. Once released by Ctirad, who has quickly fallen in love with her, Šárka serves him and his comrades with drugged [[mead]] and once they have fallen asleep she sounds a [[Horn (instrument)#History|hunting horn]]: an agreed signal to the other women. The poem ends with the warrior maidens falling upon and murdering the sleeping men. It was first performed under the baton of [[Adolf Čech]] (sources disagree whether this was on 10 December 1876<ref>{{cite web |url=http://culturaldistrict.org/system/assets/5935/original/Smetana.pdf |title=BEDŘICH SMETANA: Born March 2, 1824 in Leitomischl, Bohemia; died May 12, 1884 in Prague: Šárka from Má Vlast ("My Country") (1875) |access-date=21 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310065817/http://culturaldistrict.org/system/assets/5935/original/Smetana.pdf |archive-date=10 March 2013 }}</ref> or 17 March 1877).<ref name=cincin>[http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/downloads/CSO%20Chang%20Apr%204and6%202013.pdf Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404014853/http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/downloads/CSO%20Chang%20Apr%204and6%202013.pdf |date=4 April 2015}}</ref>

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