Part II · III. The Consequences of Igor's Defeat

For those two valiant sons of Svyatoslav, Igor and Vsevolod, had aroused the wrong which their father Svyatoslav [the great and terrible of Kiev] had lulled asleep. With his might having conquered, [or kept in panic] through his powerful armies and tempered swords, he invaded the Polovsk land; he trampled down their hills and clefts, sullied their streams and lakes, dried out their rivers and fens. And the heathen Kobyak he tore, like a whirlwind, from the bight of the sea, out of the great hosts of the Polovtsy; and Kobyak fell in the city of Kiev in the Hall of Svyatoslav.

There the Germans and the Wends, there the Greeks and Moravians sing the fame of Svyatoslav; they obsecrate Prince Igor, who foundered his abundance in, the bed of the Kayala, the Polovsk river, and filled it with Russian gold.

There Igor dismounted from his golden saddle into a slave's saddle.