The Tale of the Armament of Igor · 1915
Part I · VIII. The Battle
Translated by Leonard A. Magnus (1915)
From the dawning on Friday they trampled on the heathen hosts of the Polovtsy and scattered themselves like arrows over the field. They seized the fair maidens of the Polovtsy, and with them gold and cloths and costly samite. With the mantles and cloaks and coats they set about bridging over the myre and greasy places, with all the various patterned raiments of the Polovtsy.
[To Igor] the brave son of Svyatoslav [there fell] a purple flag, a white banner, a red panache and a silver spear.
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 · VIII. The Battle. Translated by Leonard A. Magnus. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/lay-of-igor-magnus/7/.
Chicago
Anonymous (The Lay of Igor's Campaign). The Tale of the Armament of Igor, Part I · VIII. The Battle. Translated by Leonard A. Magnus. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/lay-of-igor-magnus/7/.