THE PATHS OF THE ŠAVRINKE

THE ŠAVRINKA NO ONE RECOGNISED

One narrator from Pazin recalled a story about his grandmother, a Šavrinka from Zazid. She was known as a resilient, thrifty and resourceful woman who travelled, traded and occasionally smuggled goods between Istria and Trieste. On one occasion in Trieste, she dressed especially smartly before meeting her future husband. When she stood beside him, he did not recognise her – she looked so different from the woman he saw every day on the trading route.