It should be mentioned that sometimes, especially in the historical novels and novellas by Jaan Kross, the old Tallinn is somewhat Estonified, much like Vilnius is Lithuanized in other places.

to recouch an idea in Freudian terms

Ah where’s thy manubial glory of yore, The hall’s bright bedeckment of beauty?

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.