UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LIBRARIES Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/russianepicstudi42jako MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY VOLUME 42 1947 COPYRIGHT BY 1949 THE AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY All Rights reserved Printed in the United States of America RAUSEN BROTHERS 417 Lafayette Street New York 3, N. Y. RUSSIAN EPIC STUDIES Edited by ROMAN JAKOBSON and ERNEST SIMMONS J. PHILADELPHIA AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY 1949 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The publication of RUSSIAN EPIC STUDIES has been generously supported by the Humanities Fund and by the Committee for the Promotion of Advanced Slavic Cultural Studies. EDITORS CONTENTS PAGE Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons (Columbia University) _ 7 The Vseslav Epos by Roman Jakobson (Harvard University) and Marc Szeftel (Cornell University) _ _ 13 Classical Influenceon the SLOVO by Clarence A. Manning (Colum- bia University) _ „ 87 Scandinavian Influence on the SLOVO? by Margaret Schlauch (New York University) _...._ 99 On Alliteration in Ancient Russian Epic Literature by Dmitry cizevsky (Harvard University) _ _ _ 125 Le Digenis russe par Henri Gregoire (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) _ _ ....._ _ _ _ 131 The First Polish Translation of the SLOVO by Manfred Kridl (Columbia University) _ _ _ - 171 Rainer Maria Rilke's Translation of the SLOVO with Introduction and Notes by Andre von Gronicka (Columbia University) 179 The SLOVO in English by Avrahm Yarmolinsky (New York Public Library) - 203 Transliteration Table _ - - 224 List of Abbreviations - - 224