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the saga of Sviatopolk’s (Burisleif’s) decisive defeat
in the revolt against Brother Yaroslaf (the Jarisleif of
the saga). In Nestor it is said, “But towards evening
Yaroslaf conquered, and Sviatopolk took flight. And,
as he fled, the devil came upon him, and his joints were
loosened so that he could not sit on his horse, and they
carried him in a litter, and brought him in his flight to
Berèstije. But he said, ‘Fly with me, for they are
pursuing us.’ And his servants sent a messenger back,
and said, ‘See if any one is coming after us;’ and there
was no one who followed them. And they fled farther
with him, and he was then lying in delirium, and started
up, and said, ‘They are coming after us! Hasten!’ He
could not stay in one place, and flew through Liachland,
pursued by the wrath of God, and came to a desert
place between Liacher and Czecher, and there in a
pitiable manner he ended his life. The unjust and godless
man now had his deserts, when the judgment came upon
him, after his exit from this world, given up to torments
in the next. This was plainly shown by the mortal
pangs which came upon him, and mercilessly drove him
to death; and after death he is suffering everlasting
torments in chains. This has God done as a warning to
the Russian princes,” etc.
In the saga the extract is less theological. It is told
there how the practical Norse chief lays before Yaroslaf
the necessity of letting his rebellious brother be slain.
“For there will never be any end to this misfortune so
long as you both live.” When the king gives the answer
that he will not call upon people to attack his brother,
and then afterwards prosecute them in case they killed
him, Eymund interprets the answer as it suits him,
sallies forth with eleven others, hides himself in a
forest, by the borders of which the hostile army is
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