Anatoly Vorony

(Continued from the previous issue) Now I suggest you look at a schematic map showing my own hypothesis of the way Ihor led his expedition. Reaching Izium, fording the Northern Donets, and bypassing a mound, Ihor’s druzhyna entered the Polovetsian steppe. As dusk fell, they moved forward...

For more than two centuries historians and antiquarians have searched with no apparent success for this mysterious river. They have advanced various hypotheses and interpreting the text of the poetic masterpiece The Lay of Ihor’s Host , as well as that of the Ipatian and Lavrentian chronicles....