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The Kyiv and Mezhyhirya Chronicles: read in Ukrainian (C2)
Read two complete Kyiv chronicles in Middle Ukrainian, 1241-1621 and 1608-1700, as printed in 1888. Level C2: Cossack wars and church life, with word translation.
Київський і Межигірський літописи (Невідомі літописці)
Chronicle entries in the past tense, dates and formulas (Року ..., Тогожъ року, преставися), 17th-century chancery Ukrainian, Polish loans (кроль, тежъ, абы, барзо, моцъ, кгды), Church Slavonic forms (бысть, обретохомъ, азъ), pre-modern spelling with ъ, ѣ, ы and і, vocabulary of war, church and Cossack history, Middle Ukrainian of the 17th century
This article contains the complete text of two anonymous Middle Ukrainian chronicles, the Kyiv Chronicle (1241-1621) and the Mezhyhirya Chronicle (1608-1700), first printed in 1888 in the Kyiv collection of chronicles of the Archaeographic Commission: short year-by-year entries on the Mongol raids, Lithuanian and Polish kings, the Cossack wars, Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Ivan Mazepa, and the church life of Kyiv and the Mezhyhirya Monastery. Level C2 suits readers who want to read a historical stage of Ukrainian, 17th-century chancery language mixed with Polish and Church Slavonic in the pre-modern alphabet. You will learn to read old spellings (ъ, ѣ, ы, кг for g), Polish loans and the formulas of chronicle writing.
