Note 3 — Chapter V · B. Historic and Political Songs

As translated from the ancient Ruthenian-Ukrainian by Prof. A. Petrunkevitch of Yale University in “Poet Lore,” 1919. The reader is also referred to Prof. Leo Wiener’s “Anthology of Russian Literature,” Vol. I, p. 80 ff., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and London. Giving the translation of Prof. Petrunkevitch, the author of this study disagrees with him as well as with many others who translated the words: Руський, Русь, Русич as if identical with the modern “Russia” and “Russian.” The author’s position is supported by the self consciousness of the entire over-forty-million Ukrainian nation as well as by Ukrainian and foreign historical authorities.