Igor sets out; accumulation of omens

Igor sets out;
accumulation
of omens

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Then Igor set foot
in the golden stirrup
and rode out in the Champaign.
The sun blocks his way with darkness.
Night, moaning ominously unto him,
awakens the birds;
the whistling of beasts [arises?];
[stirring?] the daeva calls
on the top of a tree,
bids hearken the land unknown-
the Volga,
and the [Azov] Seaboard,
and the Sula country,
and Surozh,
and Korsun,
and you, idol of Tmutorokan!

Meanwhile by untrodden roads
the Kumans make for the Great Don;
[their] wagons screak in the middle of
night;
one might say – dispersed swans.

The Song of Igor's Campaign, Igor son of Svyatoslav and grandson of Oleg.

The Song of Igor's Campaign,
Igor son of Svyatoslav and grandson of Oleg.