Slovo o Polku Igorove Online?

[Edward M Dumanis]

I am sorry to make this comment without the benefit of reading your book
or the article to which you refer.  As I understand, Oljas Sulejmenov in
his book "Az i ja" (published about 30 years ago) quiet convincingly
showed impossibility of any forgery of the Slovo in the XIX century or
earlier in view of the Old Turk customs described there which he had
discovered. The corresponding linguistic layer would have to be introduced
in the original document by its creator. To show that "Slovo" was forged,
one must explain then how the Sulejmenov's discovery would be consistent
with an assumption of forgery. I am just wondering if you or anybody else
were able to overcome the Sulejmenov's argument.

Sincerely,


Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>



On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Keenan, Edward wrote:

> ... if not a supernatural feat.  Since, as is extremely probable, the Slovo
> was composed by Josef Dobrovsky during or after his stay in Russia in
> 1792-3, it was probably (lower probability; less evidence here), in its
> "original" (i.e., first) form, written in the mixed Latin-Cyrillic
> "all-slavic" alphabet he and his student Václav Hanka occasionally favored
> to render the "old Slavic dialect."  (See Hanka's Prague, 1821 edition of
> the Slovo.)  
> 
> I would suggest that readers' time would be better spent reading authentic
> works.
> 
> Edward L. Keenan
> Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History, Harvard University
> Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections
> 1703 32nd. Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007
> 
> PS: For a foretaste of my forthcoming book, you might look at the little
> article in the recent Roman Szporluk Festschrift (=Harvard Ukrainian
> Studies, vol. 22).
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: william ryan [SMTP:wfr at SAS.AC.UK]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 5:59 PM
> > To:   SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> > Subject:      Re: Slovo o Polku Igorove Online?
> > 
> > That really would be a triumph of modern technology!
> > Will Ryan
> > 
> > Charles Price wrote:
> > 
> > > Does anyone happen to know a web page with Slovo o
> > > Polku Igorove in the original script?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > > Charles
> > 
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