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 horses was strewn with bones, and out of this sowing affliction will rise in the land of the Russians."

Then comes one of the best bits of early Russian poetry—the lamentations of Yaroslávna, Igor's wife, who waits for his return in the town of Putívl:

This little fragment gives some idea of the general character and beauty of the Saying about Igor's Raid.