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STUDIA MYTHOLOGICA SLAVICA 13, 2010
Aleksandr V. Koptev
Reconstructing the Funeral Ritual of the Kievan Prince Igor
(Primary Chronicle, sub anno 945)
Abstract
The article deals with the story of the revenge of Kievan Princess Olga to the Drevlyans who murdered her husband, Prince Igor, in 945. Three stages of the revenge are interpreted as a princely funeral ritual, determined by the mythological picture of the tripartite structure of the universe.
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