Goštautas gives the warm coin to a beggar¶

What the chronicles say [Historical record]¶

Nothing in the record. Jonas Goštautas’s Vilnius feast (February 1437) is the saga’s; the Hanseatic loan for the bricks is invention on top of the real Hansa office at Kaunas (c. 1441).

Goštautas gives the warm coin to a beggar


Type	event
Years	1437
Status	The saga’s invention
Book	V · The Wolf’s Legacy
Chapters	17
Note	Feb 1437, Vilnius. The Counter: “one coin reached a person”. The beggar is not named; read as Dievas.

Where: Vilnius (on the map)

What really happened [The saga’s invention]¶

After the last guest leaves, a warm coin lies by the untouched sugar swan (a coin that warms from someone else, not from a hand). Goštautas gives it to an old beggar on the threshold without looking at it. Under the floor the Counter falls silent for three breaths; then: “Viena moneta pasiekė žmogų. Neįvertinta. Neužskaityta.” The beggar is not named in the text; read as Dievas Senelis, the same Beggar who turned Kęstutis’s coin to stone in 1382. The Counter then reads the term on Trakai: three years and a month.

Consequences¶

It foreshadows Žygimantas’s murder at Trakai in March 1440.

Dramatisation¶

Book V ch. 17 “Aukso Rijūno Puota” (Goštautas; February 1437, Vilnius).

Relations

Location: Vilnius

Participants: Dievas (Senelis) — The beggar on the threshold (implied; never named in the text). · Jonas Goštautas

Connections¶

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