with The Song of Roland and the Nibelungenlied, has inspired other poems, art, music, and the opera Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin. It is claimed by Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians as a national epic. As the main characters of the poem came from modern Ukraine, The Lay has had a massive influence on Ukrainian literature. For example, Ukraine's national poet, Taras Shevchenko, used the "Lament of Yaroslavna" from the Lay of Igor as the basis for several poems of his own. Subsequent Ukrainian poets such as Markian Shashkevych and Bogdan Lepky have followed Shevchenko's example. Lepky is particularly well known for his 1905 translation of The Lay into Polish. The Lay also captured the imagination of the intelligentsia during the Golden Age of Russian Poetry and has had a major influence on Russian literature and culture. Romantic poet Vasily Zhukovsky published a translation of The Lay into modern Russian in 1819. At the time of his 1837 death from wounds received in a duel, Russia's national poet, Alexander Pushkin, was planning to translate the epic from Old East Slavic into modern Russian and left detailed notes behind of his plans for the project. Pushkin's notes were later used by Nikolay Zabolotsky, who translated The Lay while imprisoned in the Gulag at Karaganda, and for this reason Zablotsky's translation remains the most popular. In 1904, Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke translated The Lay into German. Rilke's translation was posthumously published in 1930. The Lay has also been translated into English literally by Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Likhachev, and Serge Zenkovsky, and also into the original dactylic meter in a collaboration between Canadian poets Constantine Andrushyshen and Watson Kirkconnell. The Edwardian Conquest of Wales After the conquest of Wales by King Edward I of England and the death of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, who is often called "Llewellyn the Last," during an unsuccessful uprising in 1282, the Welsh poet Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch wrote in an elegy: Do you not see the path of the wind and the rain? Do you not see the oak trees in turmoil? Cold my heart in a fearful breast For the king, the oaken door of Aberffraw Hungarian poet János Arany's 1857 ballad A walesi bárdok ("The Bards of Wales") retells the legend of three Welsh bards who were summoned before King Edward I to sing his praises at Montgomery Castle in 1277. Instead, all three