156 PRINCE— TROYAN AND BOYAN IN OLD RUSSIAN. 



they are incorporated herewith together with Dr. Manning's com- 

 ments, as throwing an interesting hght on the problem. 



Slovo, II : "as a gray wolf " = II., x, 334: vroXtos Xk-os. Slovo 

 12: "as a dusky eagle" = 11., xxi, 252: aleTov-iJLe\avos. 



Manning compares also the passage already cited above of the 

 invocation of the poet Boyan, with Em-ipides, Helena, 1107 fif. ; 

 "thee who hast a tuneful seat in the leafy halls, thee I invoke, thee, 

 most musical bird, mournful nightingale, come, O associate of my 

 laments, trilling through thy tawny throat," etc. The resemblance 

 between this passage and the Igor-lines is very striking, although, 

 as Manning points out, it is doubtful whether Euripides was actually 

 invoking Homer. 



Slovo, 74: "offspring of Veles " (the ancient Slavonic cattle 

 god) ; Theocritus, xxiv, 105, states that Linus, a mythical poet, was 

 the son of Apollo. Slovo, 84: "swift horses "=^ II., viii, 88; eoal 



LTTTTOL. 



Slovo, 175: "the winds, scions of Stribog "^Odyss., x, i ff. : 

 " the winds, the sons of ^olus." 



Slovo, 186-189: "the mad children blocked the fields with their 

 shouting, but the brave Russians barred them with their crimsoned 

 shields." With this, cf . Slovo, 435 : " for these without shields 

 with hunting-knives conquer the hosts by their shouting," and con- 

 trast II., iii, 2-9: "The Trojans went with a shout and cry like 

 birds, like the cry of cranes against the sky." 



Slovo, 224: "To the Judgment Seat" {na sud) ; probably of 

 Christian origin. 



Slovo, 238: " (Russia) the scion of Dazbog"' seems to point to 

 the Russians being a chosen people; an idea probably of Biblical 

 origin, through the Biblical Greek. 



Slovo, 374: "in my golden-roofed hall;" clearly a translation 

 of the Byzantine xRVf^oKepanos. 



Slovo, 479 : " On thy gold forged throne ; " cf. Euripides, Phoen., 



220: XP^(^OTeVKTOS. 



' Dazbog, the rain or storm god, was probably the Russian equivalent of 

 the Scandinavian Thor, who was the patron of the warlike Scandinavian 

 founders of Russia (see above, note 5). 



* The meaning of these lines is very obscure. 



