The Song of Igor's Campaign, An Epic of the Twelfth Century

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The Song of Igor's Campaign is the most imaginative, celebrated, and studied work of early Russian literature.

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Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Igor's defeat:
From early morn to eve,
and from eve to dawn,
tempered arrows fly,
sabers resound against helmets,
steel lances crack.
In the field unknown, midst the Kuman land,
the black sod under hooves
was sown with bones
and irrigated with gore.
As grief they came up
throughout the Russian land.

What dins unto me,
what rings unto me?
Early today, before the effulgences,
Igor turns back his troops:
he is anxious about his dear brother Vsevolod.
They fought one day;
they fought another,
on the third, toward noon,
Igor's banners fell.
Here the brothers parted
on the bank of the swift Kayala.
Here was a want of blood-wine;
here the brave sons of Rus
finished the feast -
got their in-laws drunk,
and themselves lay down
in defense show more of the Russian land.

The grass droops with condolements
and the tree with sorrow
bends to the ground.
For now, brothers, a cheerless tide has set in;
now the wild has covered the strong;
Wrong has risen among the forces
of Dazhbog's grandson;
in the guise of a maiden
[Wrong] has stepped into Troyan's land;
she clapped her swan wings
on the blue sea by the Don,
and clapping, decreased rich times.
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Really appallingly awkward translation full of grotesque Latinisms (vatic Bayan etc.) . the original story may be good, but this version is terrible.
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Впервые русскоязычный читатель знакомится с подготовленным Владимиром Набоковым изданием великого памятника древнерусской словесности. Свой перевод памятника Набоков снабдил предисловием и комментарием, в которых предстает перед читателем как исследователь с оригинальным подходом к бессмертному творению безвестного автора. С историей создания этого уникального труда знакомит статья show more В.П. Старка, подготовившего издание. Своеобразию набоковского перевода посвящена статья Н.М. Жутовской, осуществившей перевод предисловия и комментария на русский язык. Наряду с английским текстом набоковского перевода печатается также древнерусский текст "Слова" в реконструкции Д.С. Лихачева с иллюстрациями Натальи Гончаровой, впервые в полном составе воспроизводимыми с раритетного немецкого издания 1923 г. Этим иллюстрациям посвящена статья О.А. Белобровой и указатель Н.К. Телетовой, связывающий иллюстрации с текстом "Слова". show less

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Favorsky, Vladimir (Illustrator)
Likhachov, Dmitry (Translator)
Nabokov, Vladimir (Translator)
Petrova, Irina (Translator)
Poggioli, Renato (Translator)
Raab, Harald (Translator)
Rilke, Rainer Maria (Translator)

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Canonical title*
Das Igor-Lied
Original title
Слово о полку Игореве; Слово о пълкѹ Игоревѣ
Alternate titles
The Lay of the Warfare Waged by Igor; The Tale of Igor's Campaign; The Song of Igor's Campaign; The Lay of the Host of Igor; The Lay of Igor's Campaign
Original publication date
1800 (printed edition) (printed edition); 12th century CE
People/Characters
Igor Svyatoslavich (Prince of Novgorod-Seversky)
Related movies
Knyaz Igor (1969 | IMDb)
Original language
Old East Slavic
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Poetry, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
891.711Literature & rhetoricAsian LiteratureEast Indo-European and Celtic literaturesRussian and East Slavic languagesRussian poetry–1700
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PG3300 .S6 .E57Language and LiteratureSlavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian languageSlavic. Baltic. AlbanianRussian literatureIndividual authors and worksEarly to 1700
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ISBNs
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