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Lithuanian and Zhmoyt Chronicle (1588)

Nikolas Zharkikh

In this chronicle (Lit8L) after compilative and quite confused the story of "a campaign of Vytautas the Don" (the story we already considered) follows the story of the campaign against Vorskla.

Text: PSRL, 1975, vol. 32, .

The dependence of the text from Stryjkowski quite obvious, only Stryjkowski gave talented poem, but here – its mediocre prose translation. Many words and expressions left without translation, were transliterated, so the Polish text Stryjkowski often clearer and easier to understand than the "translation".

Full text of section – in the Ukrainian version.