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Dear Matt,
thank you for this information, I will have a look at some
sources and write more later.
Best regards,
Sergei
> Dear Sergei,
>
> Though the anecdote about the werewolf-prince is but a small part
of the
> epic, Nabokov was surely aware of the greater corpus of Vseslav
tales.
. . . .
Dear Matt,
I had a brief look at the Jacobson translation of the "Song..."
("Slovo o polku Igoreve"). First remark is that there
the werewolf references are quite common - one of Polovetz
princes also is running like a wolf, and even the ordinary
knights are compared to wolves. Second, is that Kinbote
as Botkin could very well know the "Song..." and these
werewolf references, but it is
hardly imaginable in case of Shade. (It is to our old discussion
of split personality theory...)
Cheers,
Sergei