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173 [Jan Tenczynski, an ambassador from Poland to Sweden, gained

the love of a Swedish princess. On his journey to espouse her he

was captured by the Danes, in 1562, and he died in confinement in

Copenhagen in the next year. His memory has been honoured in

verse by Kochanowski and in prose by Niemcewicz.]

174 [Compare p. 305.]

175 [See note 38.]

176 Apparently the Pantler was slain about the year 1791, at the

time of the first war. [In the chronology of this poem there is

serious confusion. From Jacek's narrative (pp. 269-272) it is

plain that Thaddeus was born shortly before the death of the

Pantler. At the time of the action of the poem he is about twenty

years old (p. 21), and he was born at the time of Kosciuszko's

war against the Russians (p. 6), which would be naturally

interpreted as 1794, the date of the war in which Kosciuszko was

the dictator. All this would be consistent with the original plan

of Mickiewicz, to have the action take place in 1814 (see

Introduction, p. xiv); it conflicts with the chronology of the

completed poem, the action of which is placed in the years

1811-12. Apparently Mickiewicz inserted the note above in a vain

attempt to restore consistency. The "first war" could be none

other than that following the Constitution of May 3, 1791, in

which Prince Joseph Poniatowski and Kosciuszko were leaders.