斯拉夫神话（包括旧南斯拉夫、波兰、捷克、斯洛伐克、保加利亚）-The Russian Primary Chronicles.docx

Excerpts from Tales of Times Gone By [Povest vremennykh let]The Russian Primary Chronicles Sources:?Pamiatniki literatury Drevnei Rusi?(Dmitrii Likhachev, etc., eds. MVA:1978) andA. S. Orlov et al., eds.,?Khrestomatiia po istorii Rossii s drevneishikh vremen do nashikh dnei?(MVA:1999), in close consultancy withextended English translations in? HYPERLINK /kimball/glos.htm \l CPC CPC?? HYPERLINK /kimball/glos.htm \l ZNC ZNC, andexcerpts in? HYPERLINK /kimball/glos.htm \l DMR2 DMR?|? HYPERLINK /kimball/glos.htm \l KRR KRR?|? HYPERLINK /kimball/glos.htm \l RRC1 RRC?|? HYPERLINK /kimball/glos.htm \l VSB VSB,1 ? HYPERLINK /kimball/glos.htm \l ZMR2 ZMRSAC editor has entered boldface font, hypertext links and bracketed summaries and transitions, better to fit these texts to our course 1.Invitation to the?Rus 860-862 (6368-6370) [The four tribes who had been forced to pay tribute to the Varangians--Chuds, Slavs, Merians, and Krivichians] drove the Varangians back beyond the sea, refused to pay them further tribute, and set out to govern themselves. But there was no law among them, and tribe rose against tribe. Discord thus ensued among them, and they began to war one against the other. They said to themselves, Let us seek a prince who may rule over us, and judge us according to custom [po nravu]. Thus they went overseas to the Varangians, to the Rus. These particular Varangians were known as?Rus, just as some are called Swedes, and others Normans and Angles, and still others Gotlanders, for they were thus named. The Chuds, the Slavs, the Krivichians and the Ves then said to the Rus, Our land is great and rich, but there is no order in it. Come reign as princes, rule over us. Three brothers, with their kinfolk, were selected. They brought with them all the?Rus?and migrated. The oldest, Rurik, located himself in Novgorod; the second, Sineus, in Beloozero; and the third, Truvor, in Izborsk. From these Varangians, the Russian land received its name [prozvalas’ Russkaia zem