The Tale of the Armament of Igor · 1915
Part I · III. Igor Starts
Translated by Leonard A. Magnus (1915)
Then Igor gazed up at the bright sun, and saw all his warriors covered with the darkness [that proceeded] out of it. And Igor said to his druzina: — "Brothers and druzina! Better is it to be hewn to pieces than to be captive! So let us mount, brothers, on our swift steeds and look upon the blue Don!"
The prince's mind flamed with desire, and his eagerness to have experience of the mighty Don concealed from him the omen.
"I wish," he said, "to shatter a spear on the borders of the land of the Polovtsy, with you, my Russians: I wish to lay down my head and to drink of the Don in my helmet!"
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Anonymous (The Lay of Igor's Campaign). The Tale of the Armament of Igor, Part I · III. Igor Starts. Translated by Leonard A. Magnus. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/lay-of-igor-magnus/2/.
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Anonymous (The Lay of Igor's Campaign). The Tale of the Armament of Igor, Part I · III. Igor Starts. Translated by Leonard A. Magnus. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/lay-of-igor-magnus/2/.