has been commonly dubbed The Song of Dermot and the Earl since Goddard Henry Orpen published a diplomatic edition under this title in 1892. Kievan Rus' The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Слово о пълкѹ Игоревѣ), an epic poem in Old East Slavic, describes a failed raid made in the year 1185 by an army led by Prince Igor Svyatoslavich of Novgorod-Seversk (in the Chernigov principality of Kievan Rus' in modern Ukraine) against the Polovtsians (Cumans), Pagan Turkic nomads living along the southern banks of the Don River. The Prince and his warriors witnessed the Solar eclipse of 1 May 1185, which was interpreted by the Rus' warriors as a message from the Christian God and as a very, very bad omen. According to The Lay, Prince Igor gave a long speech to his warriors and managed to allay their fears. The poem then goes on to relate how the Prince's army was catastrophically defeated in battle by the Cumans upon the banks of the Don River and how only fifteen Rus' warriors were spared. The Cumans then went on a massive retaliatory invasion of Kievan Rus'. Meanwhile, Prince Igor and his son were the personal prisoners of Khan Konchak. Although closely guarded by his captors, Prince Igor was permitted considerable freedom and was allowed to hunt with a falcon. Ultimately, the Prince escaped with the assistance of one of his Cuman guards and returned to Christendom, to the joy of all the people of Kievan Rus'. The poem ends there, but the Prince's son, Vladimir III Igorevich, who had entered into an arranged marriage with the Khan's daughter, returned a few years later with Princess Svoboda, his Cuman bride. The Khan's daughter was baptized and their marriage was solemnized in a Byzantine Rite ceremony conducted in Old Church Slavonic. Many other historical figures are mentioned, including skald Boyan (The Bard), Princes Vseslav of Polotsk, Yaroslav Osmomysl of Halych, and Vsevolod the Big Nest of Suzdal. While drawing upon the otherwise lost tradition of war poetry in Slavic paganism, the poem's unnamed author appeals to the warring Christian Princes of Kievan Rus' and pleads with them to unite against the constant raids, murders, pillage, and enslavement of their subjects by the Pagan Turkic tribes from the steppe. Since its 18th century rediscovery in a 15th-century manuscript from Yaroslavl and 1800 publication by Aleksei Musin-Pushkin, The Lay, which has often been compared