PRINCE— TROYAX AND BOYAN IX OLD RUSSIAN. 



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3. Reference to the land of Troyan, lines 288 ff. : 



V'cstala obi da 



V silach Daz"boga vnuka 



vstupila dcvoyu 



na zhnlyu Troyanyu 



Arose scandal 



in the forces of Dazbog's offspring; 



stepped like a maiden 



on the land of Trovan. 



4. Allusion to the period of Troyan, lines 569 fT. : 



Na sed'mom vice Troyaui 

 vr^ze Vsesldv zreb'ii 

 o devicyn scbe lynbu 



In the seventh age of Troyan, 



Vseslav cast lot 



for a maiden dear to him. 



It seems clear from the above four allusions that " Troyan " 

 was used as the name of a country, thus: (i) the path of T. = the 

 historical course of T. ; (2 — 4) the "ages," probably not "battles" 

 of T. ; (3) land of T. ; which settles the geographical sense. It is 

 impossible to imagine that Troyan was a person from the above 

 allusions.- 



That the author of the Igor-Slovo^ meant his own country 

 " Russia " by " Troyan " seems quite evident, and this view has 

 been advanced by many authorities, among them Magnus himself 

 (op. cit., p. xlix), who notes, in connection with allusion No. 4 (see 

 above), that there were just seven generations between the Scan- 

 dinavian Rurik (Hrorekr), the founder of the first Russian dy- 

 nasty, and the prince Vseslav herein mentioned. Such a deduc- 

 tion is comparatively easy, so far as the historical application of 

 the term " Troyan " is concerned, but the problem as to the actual 

 meaning of the term, apart from its application in the Slovo, is much 

 more involved. Alagnus (op. cit., pp. 1-liii) cites five of the most 

 generally held views, viz., (i) Troyan indicates some district out- 

 side of Russia; a view held only by few scholars; (2) Weltmann's 

 opinion that " Troyan " should be read Krayan " borderland ; " 

 (3) "Troyan" is derived from the Roman emperor's name Trajan; 



- The idea that Troyan was a divine person seems to have prevailed only 

 in some of the later Slavonic myths (Louis Leger, " Mythologie Slave," p. 

 125), but this is probably an association with the Emperor Trajan, and not 

 with the evidently geographical Troyan of the Slovo. 



3 The full title is : Slovo p'^lku Igorcvc, Igorya Svyat'slavlica vnuka, 

 "Narrative of the Expedition of Igor, of Igor son of Svyatoslav," grandson 

 of Oleg. 



