Anonymous, Slovo o polku Igoreve [Igor's Tale]

Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia (The British Library)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication c. 1185

Places

Russia (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Epic
Poetry (any)

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Slovo o polku Igoreve

[in this article abbreviated to

SPI

; translated into English as:

The Tale of Igor's Campaign

;

The Song of Igor's Campaign

;

The Lay of Igor's Campaign

;

The Lay of the Host of Igor

;

Lay Of The Warfare Waged By Igor, Son Of Svyatoslav, Grandson Of Oleg

;

The Tale Of the Armament of Igor

] is an anonymous epic poem of about 3,000 words in length that describes the unsuccessful campaign of 1185 undertaken for ambitious reasons by Prince Igor of Novgorod-Seversky (Novgorod Siversky – nowadays is a small town in the Chernihiv region in Ukraine) against the Polovtsy (or Polovtsians; also known as Cumans or Kipchaks). The

SPI

is not only the most famous work of medieval Eastern Slavonic literature, but after nearly two hundred years of study it also remains among the most…

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Citation: Rogatchevskaia, Ekaterina. "Slovo o polku Igoreve". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 December 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24338, accessed 21 November 2024.]

Anonymous, Slovo o polku Igoreve [Igor's Tale]

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