158 PRINCE— TROYAN AND BOYAN IN OLD RUSSIAN. 



applied the term " Trojan "^" Troyan " to their own country and 

 people. This use must have been suggested by the similarly sound- 

 ing name Boyan, the legendary Slavonic poet, whose name appears 

 only in the Igor-Slovo and there only six times (cf. Magnus, op. cit., 

 xlvi). The allusions are as follows: 



(i) Line 6: 

 po zamyslcniyu Boyanyu 



(2) Lines 8ff.: 

 Boyan bo vcsci'i asce koniu 



" according to the invention of 

 Boyan." 



choiyase pcsii' tvoriti, etc. 



Boyan, tlie seer, when for anyone 



he wished to make a song, etc. 



(3) Lines 59-66: See above under the alUisions to Troyan (i), where 

 Boyan is described as " rushing on the path of Troyan." 



(4) Line 74: 



Vesce'i Boyane Vclesov vnuce 



(5) Lines 605-611 : 

 Toniu vesce'i (Boyaiie) 

 i pervoe pripcvku 

 smysleny rece: 



ni pticyii ni gub'cyu^ 

 ni pticyu ni gub'cyii^ 

 suda Boziya ne miniiti 



(6) Lines 745-747: 

 Rece Boyan i chody 

 Svyafslavy na Kogana: 

 pcsnotvor"c ac starago vrcnicni 



O Wizard Boyan, scion of Veles ! 



To him, O seer Boyan, 

 the first refrain 



with thought thou didst speak : 

 neither the crafty one, nor the ex- 

 perienced, 

 nor a bird, nor a minstrel (?) 

 can escape God's judgment. 



Boyan has told of the raids 



of Svyatoslav against the Kogan : 



the songmaker am I of olden time. 



Magnus (pp. xlvi ft'.) gives the chief opinions regarding Boyan; 

 viz., (i) that Boyan is a common Bulgarian name, citing the quota- 

 tion by Paucker of tales of a Tsarevich Boyan Simenovich. That 

 our Boyan is connected with this legendary being is extremely un- 

 likely, as there is no evidence that this Bulgarian Boyan was a 

 noted poet. In fact, the Bulgarian name is probably an echo of our 

 Boyan. (2) Boyan has been found in some of the later lists of 

 pagan Slavonic deities. This use of Boyan is probably a mere 

 deification of the poet mentioned in the Slovo. (3) Dubenski 

 mentions a hymn of Boyan of Bus, in which the instructor of Boyan 

 gives his name as a descendant of the Slovenes, the son of Zlogor, 



