Victories of
Svyatoslav
III recalled
355
360
365
370
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All because the two brave sons of
Svyatoslav,
Igor and Vsevolod,
stirred up the virulence
that had been all but curbed
by their senior,
dread Svyatoslav, the Great [Prince] of
Kiev,
[who kept the Kumans] in dread.He beat down [the Kumans] With his
mighty troops
and steel swords;
invaded the Kuman land;
leveled underfoot
hills and ravines;
muddied rivers and lakes;
drained torrents and marshes;
and the pagan Kobyaka,
out of the Bight of the Sea,
from among the great iron Kuman
troops,
he plucked like a tornado,
and Kobyaka dropped in the town of
Kiev,
in the guard-room of Svyatoslav! |
