Värsi (Värss)

1) Verse; 2) Steer, young bull. Renamed (1940-1941) after Juhan Liiv (1864-1913), poet, dark romantic and, during certain phases of his muddled mental existence, son of Tsar Alexander II, King of Poland, etc. Author of the moving Ta lendab mesipuu poole (paraphrasing: the bee flies back to the hive, a regular pollenizer at the Estonian Song Festival, Laulupeo). Died after being thrown from a train in mid-winter for not having a ticket. They took it so much more seriously in those days. First named as Koidula L. (1926-1959) with whom Liiv also, shall we say, identified. Briefly named Tähelennu (1959-1960), shooting-star or space flight,  the space race was on, and changed to this in 1960, along with its parallel of Lauliku, so ‘verse’ it is.