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)

Resources

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</…

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Citation: Rogatchevskaia, Ekaterina. "Slovo o polku Igoreve". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 December 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24338, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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