The description of the battle, in which all Nature takes part - the eagles and the wolves, and the
foxes who bark after the red shields of the Russians - is admirable. Igor's band is defeated. "From
sunrise to sunset, and from sunset to sunrise, the steel arrows flew, the swords clashed on the
helmets, the lances were broken in a far-away land - the land of the Pólovtsi." "The black earth
under the hoofs of the horses was strewn with bones, and out of this sowing affliction w ...