Title: The tale of the armament of Igor. A.D. 1185. A Russian historical epic. Edited and translated by Leonard A. Magnus LL. B. Editor of ‘Respublica’ (Early English Text Society) with revised Russian text, translation, notes, introduction and glossary
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">8vo. ff. 5, pp. lxiii, [2], 122, [6] including frontispiece (map) and 10 genealogical tables. Russian text and English translation on opposite pages between unnumbered page 2-page 24. These pages constitute page 2-page 48. Blank pages for "Notes" ([5] at end). Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-122).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">First non-periodical edition in English of Russia’s great contribution to the Ossianic movement, the Slovo o poklu Igoreve, or “Igor Tale,” ostensibly a thirteenth-century epic on the failed campaign of Prince Igor Svyatoslavich (d. 1202). After its ‘discovery’ by the Czech philologist Joseph Dubrovský and its publication at Moscow, 1800, the authenticity of the Slovo, long worshipped as a monument of early Slavic literature, is still bitterly disputed. See C. P. Farrar &amp; A. P. Evans, Bibliography of English translations from medieval sources. New York, 1946, p. 418.
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