The Tale of the Armament of Igor · 1915
Part III · III.
Translated by Leonard A. Magnus (1915)
(1) The pursuit after Igor.
It was not the magpies chirping; in pursuit of Igor, Gzak rides with Koncak.
Then the crows did not croak, the jackdaws were still, the magpies did not chirp; they crept in the boughs. Only the woodpeckers by their pecking show the road to the river; the nightingales with their merry song announce the dawn.
(2) The conversation of Gzak and Koncak.
Gzak speaks to Koncak: — "If the hawk is flying to his nest, we two will shoot down the fledgeling with our gilded arrows!"
Koncak said to Gzak: — "If the hawk is flying to his nest we will fetter the fledgeling with a maiden fair."
And Gzak said to Koncak:— "If we fetter him with a maiden fair, then we shall have neither the fledgeling nor the fair maiden; but the birds will begin to assail us in the Polovsk plains."
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Anonymous (The Lay of Igor's Campaign). The Tale of the Armament of Igor, Part III · III. Translated by Leonard A. Magnus. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/lay-of-igor-magnus/25/.
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Anonymous (The Lay of Igor's Campaign). The Tale of the Armament of Igor, Part III · III. Translated by Leonard A. Magnus. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/lay-of-igor-magnus/25/.