86 PRINCE— TATAR MATERIAL IN OLD RUSSIAN. 



Bielsk, or with Topczykaly, seven miles from Grodno. There can 

 be little doubt that these people were Tatars. 



Seljhiry (Igor, 432) may be cognate with Kalmuck silbyr, "long 

 whip," but the term seems to accord with the rest of the geograph- 

 ical series; cf. .?. v. Oljber, and Magnus, p. loi. It is probably 

 another reference to the barbarian allies of the Russians from the 

 Tatra. Note that Pol. szalhiers means " rogue." 



Seresiry (Igor, 462; only once) : 



ty by mozesi po sukhu Thou canst on dry land 



(zivymi) s seresiry streljati shoot with bold seresiry 



udalymi^^ syny Gljebovi the sons of Gljeb. 



The sons of Gljeb were princes of Rjazanj. The passage is very 

 obscure and it is apparent that the copyist himself did not understand 

 it. Cf. Magnus, pp. 106 jf., for seven views. I believe that seresiry 

 must have been an implement. The Persian fire-hurling machines 

 were known as tir-car, an iron pipe filled with explosive powder 

 and employed very early in the East. Magnus, p. 107, suggests that 

 seresir may be cognate with Magyar seres, " worry, trouble," but 

 this seems improbable. Vexler suggests that the initial s may be a 

 scribal error for t, as the letters are not dissimilar in Cyrillic, but 

 this is not necessary, as a f palatalized before the f-vowel might be- 

 come s. The word seresiry suggests a Polovtsian word ciricar and 

 seems in this passage of Igor to be a synonym of the plamenny rog 

 "flaming horn," of Igor, 312; note also smaga, "fierce heat" (Igor, 

 311), a Little-Russian word. "Live seresiry" must mean "loaded 

 implements." 



Kharalusny (Igor, 194) : meci kharaluznymi , "with steel 

 swords" (Berneker, 385; lOO) is undoubtedly connected with C. 

 karalic, " blackness," used for atramentum, " ink," in CC. 94, but 

 referring in Igor to the dark color of tempered steel. It is interest- 

 ing to note that in modern Osmanli, qarsilyq is used for the steel of 

 a flint-lock gun, but this really means " the opposite thing," i. e., the 

 thing opposite (qarsi) the flint." On the other hand, qarsilvq may 



1* It is not necessary with Magnus to separate -mi from udaly and to 

 regard mi as the ist personal possessive "my brave sons of Gljeb"; udalymi 

 is instrumental plural agreeing with seresiry. 



