News of Discovery

[Anna Dranova]

Richard, the rumor you heard is true. While working in the Russian National Library, Robert Mann found what looks like the first redaction of the Skazanie o Mamaevom poboishche. The text was published in Pushkin's time by a relative of Pushkin, Nikolai Golovin. This early redaction was overlooked for two centuries. Oleg Tvorogov mistakenly linked it with the so-called "osnovnaia redaktsiia" (which, actually, is probably the third redaction). The early redaction that Mann has identified contains at least four major parallels to the text of the Slovo o polku Igoreve that are not found in any other works of the Kulikovo Cycle. Yes, Richard, these parallels are new proof of the authenticity of the Slovo. One of the remarkable parallels comes at the conclusion of the Skazanie as it reads in the early, 15th-century redaction. This parallel is invaluable because it helps to lay bare the chronological layers in the Zadonshchina and the later redactions of
 the Skazanie. We now know that there was an "early Zadonshchina" and an early Skazanie, neither of which had the ending that is found in the surviving versions of the Zadonshchina. It now appears that both the Slovo and the Zadonshchina had to circulate in oral form. Mann's study, with the Skazanie texts of Golovin and Snegirev, is being published by Iazyki Slavianskikh Kul'tur in Moscow.
  My guess, Richard, is that you heard about this discovery at the Russian Literature Institute (Pushkinskii Dom). (?)
   Anna 

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Date:    Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:42:50 -0400
From:    Robert Orr <colkitto at ROGERS.COM>
Subject: Re: News of discovery

It may well be, but it shouldn't discourage the sort of 
Shakespeare/Bacon/Marlowe stuff that the Slovo seems to generate

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Schultz" <schultz1970 at YAHOO.COM>
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Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:05 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] News of discovery


This summer in Russia I heard that an American (or a Brit?) has found an 
early text of one of the works about Kulikovo, and that this text proves the 
Slovo o polku Igoreve is genuine. Can anyone tell me whether this 
information is true?
Richard Schultz




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