Dove Book
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dove-book-290-17631922
title:
Dove Book
text:
The Verse about the Book of the Dove is a medieval Russian spiritual verse. At least 20 versions are known. They vary in length from 30 to over 900 lines. The poem is generally thought to have been written ca. 1500 in the Novgorod region, though Russian nationalists postulate its great antiquity. The earliest extant manuscript is dated to the 17th century. The main part of the Dove-Book is a long sequence of riddles. In a series of answers to those riddles, King David explains the origin of ligh
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Medieval Russian religious ballad
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2021-10-08T20:20:04Z
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